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Dr. Julian Bacharach

Dr. Julian Bacharach

Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Biography

I completed my PhD at UCL in 2019, under the supervision of M. G. F. Martin and Rory Madden. I studied Music for my BA and took a Masters in Musicology before transitioning to philosophy. Prior to joining Trinity, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophical Psychological at the University of Antwerp with Bence Nanay; before that, I was a visiting researcher at the Humboldt University in Berlin, hosted by Tobias Rosefeldt.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Julian Bacharach, Are Events Things of the Past?, Mind, 130, (518), 2021, p381 - 412Journal Article, 2021, DOI
  • Julian Bacharach, Transient Particulars, Ergo, 11, 2024, p627 - 651, p627-651Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL
  • Julian Bacharach, Is There Such a Thing as Joint Attention to the Past?, Topoi, 43, (2), 2024, p323 - 335, p323-335Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Julian Bacharach, Relief, Time-Bias, and the Metaphysics of Tense, Synthese, 200, 2022, p1 - 22, p1-22Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Julian Bacharach, Tensed Truth, Temporal Particularity, and the Fixity of the Past, Synthese, 203, 2024, p1 - 20, p1-20Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL
  • Julian Bacharach, Agent-Regret, Finitude, and the Irrevocability of the Past, Topoi, 43, 2024, p447 - 458, p446-458Journal Article, 2024, DOI

Research Expertise

My research interests are at the intersection of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of psychology. I am interested especially in questions about our understanding and experience of time, and about the nature and role of memory. I am also interested our understanding of causation, especially mental causation and causation in the social world. I aim to pursue this research in an open-minded and empirically informed way, incorporating insights and problems from cognitive science, developmental psychology, and the social sciences. I also have historical interests in early modern philosophy, Kant, and 20th century analytic philosophy.

Philosophy, Memory and attention, Learning, motivation and emotion, Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies, Cognition,

Recognition

  • LAHP Studentship in support of study for PhD in Philosophy, 2015"2018. 2015
  • Leverhulme Study Abroad studentship awarded for 2 years of postdoctoral study under Prof. Tobias Rosefeldt, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. 2020
  • Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Studentship (£8,000) awarded in support of continuing study for PhD in Philosophy, for academic year 2018"19. 2018
  • 2015 Joint winner of Richard Wollheim Essay Prize for best thesis chapter draft in year, UCL Philosophy department. 2015
  • UCL Departmental Scholarship in support of study for MPhilStud in Philosophy, 2013"2015. 2013
  • 2018 Aristotelian Society Student Bursary (£3,000) awarded in support of continuing study for PhD in Philosophy, for academic year 2018"19. 2018