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HEATHER DYKE: RESEARCH

    BOOK
  • Time. Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy. New York: Routledge, 2008.
    EDITED BOOKS
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Co-edited with Adrian Bardon. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
  • From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics. New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
    BOOK CHAPTERS
  • ‘Introduction’ in Heather Dyke and Adrian Bardon (eds) A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 1-6. With Adrian Bardon.
  • ‘Evolutionary Explanations of Temporal Experience’ in Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke (eds) A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 521-34. With James Maclaurin.
  • ‘Time and Tense’ in Adrian Bardon and Heather Dyke (eds) A Companion to the Philosophy of Time. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013: 328-44.
  • ‘Propositions: Truth vs. Existence’ in James Maclaurin (ed) Rationis Defensor: Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne. Dordrecht: Springer, 2012: 127-38.
  • ‘On Methodology in the Metaphysics of Time’ in Adrian Bardon (ed) The Future of the Philosophy of Time. New York: Routledge, 2011: 169-87.
  • ‘Introduction’, in H. Dyke (ed) From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics. New York: Routledge, 2009: 1-14.
  • ‘What Moral Realism Can Learn From the Philosophy of Time’, in H. Dyke (ed) Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003: 11-25.
  • ‘Introduction’, in H. Dyke (ed) Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003: 1-7.
  • ‘McTaggart and the Truth About Time’ in C. Callender (ed) Time, Reality and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002: 137-52.
  • ‘Real Times and Possible Worlds’, in R. Le Poidevin (ed) Questions of Time and Tense. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998: 93-117.
    JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • ‘Existence and ∃xistence’, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 25(3) (2013): 367-76. With Zach Weber.
  • ‘What Shall We Do With Analytic Metaphysics? A Response to McLeod and Parsons’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(1) (2013): 179-82. With James Maclaurin. Available online at
  • ‘What is Analytic Metaphysics For?’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90(2) (2012): 291-306. With James Maclaurin. Available online at
  • ‘The Evolutionary Origins of Tensed Language and Belief’, Biology and Philosophy, 26 (2011): 401-18. Available online at )
  • ‘Words, Pictures and Ontology: A Commentary on John Heil’s From an Ontological Point of View’, SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review 6 (2007): 31-41. Available online at
  • ‘Tenseless/Non-Modal Truthmakers for Tensed/Modal Truths’, Logique et Analyse, 199 (2007): 269-87.
  • ‘The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Time Travel’, Think, 9 (2005): 43-52. To be translated into Polish for an online open-access journal in 2015.
  • ‘Temporal Language and Temporal Reality’ The Philosophical Quarterly, 53 (2003): 380-91.
  • ‘Tensed Meaning: A Tenseless Account’, Journal of Philosophical Research, 28 (2003): 65-81.
  • ‘“Thank Goodness That’s Over”: The Evolutionary Story’ Ratio 15 (2002): 276-92. With James Maclaurin. Reprinted in L. N. Oaklander (ed.) The Philosophy of Time: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Vol. III. London: Routledge, 2008: 35-50.
  • ‘Tokens, Dates and Tenseless Truth Conditions’, Synthèse 131 (2002): 329-51. Reprinted in L. N. Oaklander (ed.) The Philosophy of Time: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Vol. I. London: Routledge, 2008: 287-309.
  • ‘The Pervasive Paradox of Tense’, Grazer Philosophische Studien 62 (2001): 103-24.
  • ‘Temporal Parts and Their Individuation’, Analysis 61 (2001): 289-92. With Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot.
  • ‘Making Sense of Time Travel’, Cogito 9 (1995): 244-48.
    ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
  • ‘Time, metaphysics of’, in E. Craig (ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy London: Routledge, 2005. Available online at . Revised version published in 2010.
    BOOK REVIEWS
  • Review of Experiencing Time, by Simon Prosser. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Philosophy Now 124 (2018): 48-49. Available online at
  • Review of Time, Space and Metaphysics, by Bede Rundle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Mind 120 (2011): 558-61. Published online 8 June 2011:
  • Review of A Future for Presentism, by Craig Bourne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008): 747-51.
  • Review of Persistence Through Time, and Across Possible Worlds, by J. Benovsky. Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag, 2006. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2006) Available online at
  • Review of Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor, eds. H. Lillehammer and G. Rodriguez-Pereyra. London: Routledge, 2003. Philosophical Books 45 (2004): 359-61.
  • Review of How Things Persist, by K. Hawley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2003) Available online at
  • Review of The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, ed. R. M. Gale. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2002. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2003): 620-21.
  • Review of The Tensed Theory of Time, by W. L. Craig. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2002): 404-06.
  • Review of The Arguments of Time, ed. J. Butterfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Mind 110 (2001): 442-45.
  • Review of Time, Tense and Causation, by M. Tooley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1999): 100-1.
  • Review of Language and Time, by Q. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Mind 104 (1995): 436-40.
  • OTHER PUBLICATIONS
  • ‘Jane Austen’s Family and Court Lodge’, Austentations: An Occasional Periodical of the Jane Austen Society Kent Branch. (Spring 2016): 23-37.
  • ‘Why is Doping Wrong Anyway?’, The Conversation. (August 2016). Available online at
  • ‘Science and Philosophy: Making Time for Each Other’, Ockham’s Razor ABC Radio National, aired 9 December 2007. Transcript available online at