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Brendan Murday serves as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Ithaca College, a position he assumed in 2022 after previously holding the role of Associate Dean for Faculty and New Initiatives in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He joined Ithaca College in 2006 as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, earning tenure in 2014. His academic foundation spans philosophy, with prior teaching responsibilities in logic, introductory philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
Dr. Murday's research centers on philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology, with specialized focus on the semantics and metaphysics of names and fictional characters, the problem of the criterion, and interdisciplinary investigations into intellectual humility. His scholarly work bridges traditional philosophical inquiry with contemporary semantic frameworks, addressing foundational questions about reference, fictional entities, and epistemic justification.
Analysis of his publication history (2011-2024) reveals consistent engagement at the intersection of metaphysics and philosophy of language, particularly regarding reference theory, ontological status of fictional objects, and solutions to epistemic regress problems. His work demonstrates methodological rigor in applying semantic pluralism, two-dimensionalism, and rigid designation theories to both real-world and fictional contexts, while maintaining connections to broader epistemological concerns about justification and knowledge acquisition.
