Biography
Dr. James Collin is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences. He oversees the critical thinking block of the VinCore curriculum, and the philosophy curriculum at VinUniversity. Dr. Collin received his MA in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, and his MSc. and PhD. in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining VinUniversity, Dr. Collin was Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. His work focusses on the nature of meaning and representation, and the implications thereof for issues in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion.
· Philosophy of language
· Metaphysics
· Epistemology
· Philosophy of science
· Philosophy of religion
· Philosophy of mathematics
· Formal Logic
· Critical Thinking
· Bayesian Epistemology
· Analytic Philosophy
forthcoming: “Sortal Combat: Semantic Inferentialism and Ontological Deflationism about Abstract Objects”. Synthese Library.
forthcoming. “Animal Suffering and Soul-Making”. Palgrave Handbook on the Problem of Animal Suffering. Palgrave.
2023. “Of Marriage and Mathematics: Inferentialism and Social Ontology”. Topoi 42:247-257.
2022. “The Reverse Ontological Argument”. Analysis 82(3): 410-416.
2022. “Isaac Qatraya and the Logical Problem of Evil”. Religions 13(12) 1171.
2022. “Mathematical Nominalism”. Internet Enyclopedia of Philosophy.
2022. “Sensitivity Theorists Aren’t Unhinged”. Erkenntnis 87: 535-522 (with Anthony Bolos).
2022. “The Problem of Evil,” in Handbook for Philosophy of Religion, edited by Mark A. Lamport, Rowman & Littlefield.
2020. “What the Argument from Evil Should, But Cannot, Be.” Religious Studies 56(3): 333-348.
2019. “Soul-making, Theosis, and Our Evolutionary History”, Zygon 54(2): 523-541.
2018. “Towards an Account of Epistemic Luck for Necessary Truths.” Acta Analytica 33(4): 483-504.
2018. “A Sensitive Virtue Epistemology.” Synthese 195(3): 1321–1335 (with Anthony Bolos).
2017. “Semantic Inferentialism as a Form of Active Externalism.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16(3): 387–402 (with J. Adam Carter and S. Orestis Palermos).
2017. “Do Logic and Religion Mix?,” in Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone, edited by Duncan Pritchard and Mark Harris. Routledge.
2017. “Human Uniqueness and the Normative Conception of the Rational,” in Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special?, edited by Michael Fuller, Dirk Evers, Anne Runehov, Knut-Willy Sæther. Springer.
2013. “Semantic Inferentialism and the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism.” Philosophy Compass 8(9): 846–856.
2002-2006: MA in Philosophy, with First Class Honours (University of St Andrews)
2007-2008: MSC by Research in Philosophy, with Distinction (University of Edinburgh)
2008-2013: PhD in Philosophy (University of Edinburgh)
Advance HE Fellow (FHEA)
Chartered Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT)
