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Dr. Andrew Newman is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Program. He comes from England and was born and brought up in Bournemouth in Dorset. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Physics from King's College, London, a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Birkbeck College, London, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University College, London. He teaches courses in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, analytic philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy. His main research interests are in analytic metaphysics, particularly the theory of universals and related problems concerning particulars and the notion of substance. He is the author of a number of articles on metaphysics and two books. The Physical Basis of Predication (Cambridge, 1992) is about universals, causality, and the notion of the real. The Correspondence Theory of Truth, an Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication (Cambridge 2002) defends a version of the correspondence theory from a realist metaphysical point of view. His article, "Converse Relations, Vectors, and Three Theses from Armstrong," was published in Metaphysica: 3 (2002), No. 2, pp. 65-84. At the moment he is working on a paper about the bundle theory of particulars.
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