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Dr. Evan Welchance

Visiting Lecturer of Philosophy
Curriculum Vitae

  • Profile

    Dr. Evan Welchance is a philosopher who specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of perception. In his primary research project, he argues that questions about the metaphysics of material objects can be settled empirically. He also has teaching interests in ethics and epistemology.

    Dr. Welchance received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 2025. Before that, he earned an MA in philosophy from Brandeis University, and a BA in philosophy/BS in mathematics from Middle Tennessee State University.

    More information about Dr. Welchance is available at his website, https://www.evanwelchance.com/. You can contact him via email at evan.welchance@richmond.edu. 

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    • Awards

      University of Virginia All-University Graduate Teaching Award, AY 2024-25

    • Presentations

      Selected Presentations

      Ontological aliens and epistemic charity

      • Central APA (Colloquium), February 2025.

      The problem of referential adicity for easy ontology

      • Eastern APA (Symposium), January 2025.

      Perception and extraordinary objects

      • Morven Retreat for the University of Virginia’s Department of Philosophy, September 2024.

      Extraordinary objects

      • UVA Undergraduate Philosophy Club, October 2023 (Invited)

      Perceptually justifying ordinary object beliefs

      • Tennessee Philosophical Association, October 2023
      • Eastern APA (Symposium), January 2024.

      Justification, bias, and epistemic blame

      • Virginia Philosophical Association, October 2023.
      • Mind, Value, and Moral Psychology: Rice and University of Houston Graduate Conference, November 2023

      Reference variance

      • Rutgers Grad Talk Series, March 2023.

      Metaphysical infinitism and theoretical virtue

      • Tennessee Philosophical Association, October 2022.
      • Central APA (Colloquium), February 2023.
      • Long Island Philosophical Society, April 2023.

      Phenomenology-based quantifier variance

      • Second Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology, University of Graz, September 2022.

      Perceiving persistence conditions

      • Georgia Philosophical Society, June 2022.
      • Rutgers Metaphysics Reading Group, November 2022.
      • Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference, November 2022.
      • Eastern APA (Colloquium), January 2023.

      Acquaintability and ordinary ontology

      • Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2022.

      Attention and cognitive phenomenology

      • Morven Retreat for the University of Virginia’s Department of Philosophy, September 2021.
      • Tennessee Philosophical Association, November 2021.                       

      Vagueness is unitary

      • Graduate Philosophy Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2021.                           

      Ordinary objects are a priori-ty

      • Mark L. Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference, Brown University, March 2021.                             

      Against Philosophical Proofs Against Common Sense

      • Florida Philosophical Association, February 2021. (With Louis Doulas.)

      The functional conception of laws

      • Mathematical and Numerical Inspirations in Philosophy, Stanford University, April 2020.
      • Wisconsin Philosophical Association, August 2020.
      • South Carolina Society for Philosophy, April 2021.

    • Memberships

      American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division

  • Publications
    Journal Articles

    Doulas, Louis & Welchance, Evan (2021). Against philosophical proofs against common sense. Analysis 81 (2):207–215.

  • Links
    Personal Website