Much of my research falls under the umbrella of what we might call the ‘metaphysics of science’, overlapping both metaphysics and philosophy of physics. In those fields my main interests include chance and the foundations of probability; persistence; location; space, time and spacetime; mereology; causation; dispositions; modality; laws; and the metaphysics of gender. In epistemology, I’m mostly interested in Bayesian approaches to epistemological issues, including the connection between formal and traditional epistemology; disagreement and testimony; rational updating; confirmation theory; and scientific realism. In philosophy of language, I’m most interested in the nature of propositions; the semantics of modals and conditionals; context-sensitivity; vagueness; and in understanding fictional discourse. I’m available to work with postgraduate and honours students on any of these topics, and many more besides.
In 2020–24 I am leading an ARC Discovery Project grant, with partner investigators Cody Gilmore and Shieva Kleinschmidt, for our project Everything in its Place: Persistence, Location and Time ($224,672).
You can see more about this research at the project website: antonyeagle.org/place/.
In 2016–17 I held a Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers with additional support from the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. I spent a semester at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy working on the project Unsettledness: Indeterminacy, Time and Chance (€22,780).
In 2007 I received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Research Leave Scheme for my project Counterfactuals, Chance and Ability (£23,445).
My publications list, drawn from PhilPeople, can be found here: PhilPeople publication list. This also includes links to prepublication versions stored in PhilArchive, where available.
You can also find a list of my publications in the ‘Publications’ section of my CV.
You can also find out which (if any) of my upcoming talks PhilEvents knows about.