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Biographical and contact information for Nikk Effingham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.

Professor Nikk Effingham PhD (Leeds) Department of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy Head of Department Contact details Telephone0121 41 [email protected]@NikkEffingham View my research portal AddressERI BuildingUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK I research metaphysics, philosophy of time (mainly time travel), philosophy of religion, and philosophy of epidemiology. Qualifications PhD. Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2007. Taught M.A., Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2001. Joint Honours B.A. Philosophy and English, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2000. Biography I studied at the University of Leeds, as well as worked there as a teaching assistant and as the administrator for the CMM (Centre of Metaphysics and Mind.) I moved to Glasgow to take up a one-year temporary teaching post before then taking another temporary post at the University of Birmingham. I was made permanent the year after. Teaching I teach both metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. Postgraduate supervision I currently supervise doctoral candidates researching areas including metaontology, ontology, the philosophy of time, and the philosophy of mind. I can supervise theses in a wide variety of areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics and many areas of philosophy of religion, science and mind. Find out more - our PhD Philosophy page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham. Research I’m currently writing a book developing my wave theory of time, expanding on earlier papers. In addition, I’m working on: a monograph exploring time travel in fiction; the metaphysics of fragmentalism and other incoherent systems of metaphysics; and the philosophy of what happens after we die, whether we should believe in ghosts, reincarnation, etc. Other activities Personal website: https://nikkeffingham.weebly.com/ Publications Recent publications Book Effingham, N & Miller, K 2023, Does Tomorrow Exist? A Debate. Little Debates about Big Questions, 1st edn, Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105664 Article Effingham, N 2026, 'Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument', Analytic Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.70007 Effingham, N 2025, 'Fragmenting the Paradox of Material Constitution', Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Effingham, N 2024, 'The metatheoretical location of our commitments: Heterodox truthmaking as a case study', Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 745-758. https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2024_80_3_0745 Effingham, N 2024, 'Would God really send me to Hell for stealing a Wispa bar?', Sophia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-024-01002-4 Effingham, N 2023, 'Reincarnation', Religious Studies Archive. Effingham, N 2023, 'The Close Possibility of Time Travel', Philosophies, vol. 8, no. 6, 118. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8060118 Effingham, N 2022, 'Celebrities discuss philosophy episode 4: a transcript', Think, vol. 21, no. 61, pp. 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175621000476 Effingham, N 2022, 'Fission theories of Original Guilt', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 15-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-021-09823-w Effingham, N 2022, 'In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: reply to Cumpa and Declos', Philosophia, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1707-1719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00532-w Effingham, N 2022, 'The wave theory of time: a comparison to competing tensed theories', Journal of the American Philosophical Association. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.49 Chapter Effingham, N 2025, Driving in Fourth Gear Through the Fourth Dimension. in J Heter & R Greene (eds), Back to the Future and Philosophy: Essays on Traveling Through the Space-Time Continuum. McFarland, pp. 4-17. <https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/back-to-the-future-and-philosophy/> Effingham, N 2025, Time Travel. in N Emery (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. 1st edn, Routledge Philosophy Companions, Routledge, pp. 270-279. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003495611-29 Effingham, N 2023, Location and Properties. in ARJ Fisher & A-S Maurin (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Properties. 1st edn, Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy, Routledge, pp. 148-158. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246077-17 Digital or Visual Products Ichino, A, Bortolotti, L, Effingham, N, Zambra, F, Ceravolo, P & Tarantola, D, Fake Plots: the game: A game to help us recognise misinformation online and conspiracy theories, 2024, Digital or Visual Products, The Philosophy Garden, Online. <https://sites.google.com/view/the-philosophy-garden/fake-plots> View all publications in research portal