Meg Wallace is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Philosophy Department at University of Kentucky.

She received her PhD in philosophy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in August of 2009.
In 2009-2010 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Oberlin College.

Meg's  primary research interests include the metaphysics of ordinary objects, mereology, mental fictionalism, and material plenitude. She is currently working on a monograph (under contract) with Cambridge University Press as part of their Elements series called Parts and Wholes: Spatial to Modal. It is a brief survey of various views of composition and mereology as a lead up to - and defense of - a theory of modal parts. She recently gave a paper "Deflating Mental Fictionalism" in Budapest, Hungary for a conference on Mental Fictionalism. That paper, along with an updated draft of her unpublished manuscript "Mental Fictionalism" (2007) are planned for publication in a volume on Mental Fictionalism (Routledge). Some of her recent publications include: "Counterexamples and Common Sense: When (not) to Tollens a Ponens" in Analysis (2020), "The Lump Sum: a Theory of Modal Parts" Philosophical Papers (2019), and "The Polysemy of 'Part'" Synthese (2019).

Meg's teaching interests continue to include a novel project of combing physical movement, performance, and the circus arts with philosophical study - a project started in 2017 with the creation of her course PHI 193: Circus and Philosophy. Recently, a large gym space for this class has been upgraded to accommodate multiple aerial apparatuses and circus equipment, allowing students greater room for movement and artistic exploration. This 'Circus Lab' is specifically intended to be an on-campus hub for interdisciplinary education and circus-centered research. PHI 193 will next run fall 2021.  

For more info, visit Meg's website. 

• PHI 100: Intrioduction to Philosophy - Knowledge and Reality
• PHI 120: An Introduction to Logic
• PHI 193: Circus and Philosophy
• PHI 315: Philosophy and Science Fiction (Honors and Non-Honors)
• PHI 320: Symbolic Logic I
• PHI 350: Metaphysics and Epistemology
• PHI 520: Symbolic Logic II
• PHI 550: Problems of Knowledge and Reality
• Graduate Seminar: Unity  
• Graduate Seminar: Fictionalism
• Graduate Seminar: Space, Time, and Possible Worlds
• Graduate Seminar: Paradoxes