Heather Dyke
Associate Professor
RESEARCH
TEACHING
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PhD Leeds (1996)
- office: 2N1, second floor, central corridor, Burns Building, 95 Albany Street
- phone: +64 (0)3 471 6358
- email: heather.dyke@otago.ac.nz
RESEARCH
TEACHING
Heather specialises in
metaphysics, in particular, the philosophy of time. She defends the
B-theory of time according to which there is no distinction between
past, present and future, and no flow of time, independently of any
perceiver. She gained her BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of
Leeds, where she worked with Robin Le Poidevin. She is the author of Metaphysics
and the Representational Fallacy (Routledge, 2008), Time
(Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 2021),
and co-editor with Adrian Bardon of A Companion to the Philosophy
of Time (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). She has published numerous
journal articles. She has taught at the University of Otago and the
London School of Economics and Political Science. She teaches in
Metaphysics, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Epistemology and Philosophy of
Mind.