Rate My Professor Heather Dyke

Dyke specialises in metaphysics, in particular the philosophy of time. She defends the B-theory of time, according to which there is no distinction between past, present, and future, and no flow of time, independently of any perceiver. Her scholarly contributions include authored books such as Time (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy (Routledge, 2008). She has edited A Companion to the Philosophy of Time (with Adrian Bardon, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009), and Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). Key journal articles feature "Neutral Realism: A New Metaphysical Approach to Representation" (Philosophies, 2023), "Taking Tense Seriously Cannot Help the Growing Block" (Disputatio, 2023), "Weak Neo-Whorfianism and the Philosophy of Time" (Mind & Language, 2022), and "The Evolutionary Origins of Tensed Language and Belief" (Biology and Philosophy, 2011). Dyke has also published numerous book chapters, including "Naturalising the Philosophy of Time" (Routledge, 2024), and an encyclopedia entry, "Time, metaphysics of" (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005).