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Biography
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion and have an interest in value theory.
Research Interests
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Value Theory
Education
2014 Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
2009 M.A., Western Michigan University
2006 B.A., Biola University
Courses Taught
Introduction to Philosophy, Critical Reasoning, Introduction to Logic, Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy and Society, Recent Modern Philosophers, Value Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Graduate Seminar on Composition, Graduate Seminar on Grounding, Dissertation Seminar
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Philosophy
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Recent Publications
Saenz, N. B. (2024). Measuring Ontological Simplicity. Ergo, 11, 652-688. https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.6165
Saenz, N. B. (2023). Properties and a grounding principle. Inquiry (United Kingdom), 66(10), 2024-2036. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1850345
Saenz, N. B. (2022). On a causal principle in an argument for a necessary being. Analysis, 82(2), 272-277. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anab074
Saenz, N. B. (2022). The Taming of the Grounds. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 52(8), 789-809. https://doi.org/10.1017/can.2023.17
Saenz, N. B. (2020). An account of truthmaking. Synthese, 197(8), 3413-3435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1894-5