Dr. Murday joined Ithaca College in 2006 as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, earning tenure in 2014. He served as Associate Dean for Faculty and New Initiatives in the School of Humanities and Sciences before moving into the Provost's office in 2022 in the role of Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.
Before moving into administrative roles, Dr. Murday regularly taught courses in logic, introductory philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and a first-year seminar on the seven deadly sins. Current areas of research include interdisciplinary thinking about intellectual humility, the semantics and metaphysics of names and fictional characters, and the problem of the criterion.
Selected Publications:
'Infinitism: rival or common ground in answering the epistemic regress?', Synthese, 203 (2), 2024: 1-12.
'Can Self-Forming Actions Dispel Worries about Luck?', Philosophia, 45 (3): 1313-1330.
‘Fictional Realism and Indeterminate Identity', Journal of Philosophical Research, 40, 2015: 205-225.
‘Definite Descriptions and Semantic Pluralism’, Philosophical Papers, 43 (2), 2014: 255-284.
‘Names and Obstinate Rigidity’, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 51 (2), 2013: 224-242.
‘Two-Dimensionalism and Fictional Names’, in Truth in Fiction, edited by Franck Lihoreau, Ontos Verlag, 2011: 43-76.