Jessica M. Wilson
Jessica M. Wilson (Ph.D Cornell, 2001) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Wilson’s research focuses on metaphysics, philosophical methodology, and epistemology, with applications to philosophy of science and mind; she has over fifty publications on these topics. She is the recipient of many awards and grants, including (with Jonathan Schaffer) the 2014 Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, the Regular Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the Eidyn Centre at the University of Edinburgh (2014–16), a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for her project ‘How Metaphysical Dependence Works’ (2017–2024), the 2022 University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Faculty Scholar Award, and the 2023 Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wilson’s second book, Fundamentality and Metaphysical Dependence, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.