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Journal articles
24. (forthcoming), "Property dualists shouldn't be nominalists about properties," Inquiry (with Dan Giberman) [official - open access]
23. (forthcoming), "Pregnant Thinkers," Philosophical Quarterly [draft] [official]
22. (2023), “Varieties of Grounding Skepticism,” The Monist, 106: 301–16 [draft] [official]
21. (2022), "Against the status response to the Argument from Vagueness", Synthese, 200: 468 [draft] [official]
20. (2022), "Self-making and Subpeople", Journal of Philosophy, 119 (9):461–88 [draft] [official]
19. (2022), "An explanatory idealist theory of grounding", Nous , 56: 530–53 [draft] [official]
18. (2022), "The Question of Iterated Causation", Philosophy ad Phenomenological Research, 104: 454–473 [draft] [official]
17.(2021), "There Is No Distinctively Semantic Circularity Objection to Humean Laws," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51: 270–81 [official - open access]
16.(2021), "The oldest solution to the circularity problem for Humeanism about the laws of nature," Synthese, 198: 8933–8953 [draft] [official]
15.(2021), "What is priority monism?", Philosophical Studies, 178: 2873-93 [draft] [official]
14. (2021) "Intuitions about Objects: From Teleology to Elimination," Mind, 130: 199–213 [official]
13. (2021) "How to be an uncompromising revisionary ontologist," Synthese, 198: 2129–52 [draft] [official]
12. (2020) "Four Questions of Iterated Grounding," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101: 341–64 [draft] [official]
11. (2020) "Constitution and Dependence," Journal of Philosophy, 117:150–77 [draft] [official]
10. (2020) "Diachronic self-making," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98: 349–62 [draft] [official]
9. (2020) "Metaphysically explanatory unification," Philosophical Studies, 177: 1659–83 [draft] [official]
8. (2019) "Deflationary Nominalism and Puzzle Avoidance," Philosophia Mathematica, 27: 88–104 [draft] [official]
7. (2019) "The myth of the myth of supervenience," Philosophical Studies, 176: 1967–89 [draft] [official]
6. (2018) "What is wrong with self-grounding?", Erkenntnis, 83: 1157–1180 [draft] [official]
5. (2018) "The Deflationary Theory of Ontological Dependence," Philosophical Quarterly, 68: 481–502 [draft] [official]
4. (2017) "Grounding and the Argument from Explanatoriness", Philosophical Studies, 174: 2927–52 [draft] [official]
3. (2016) "Self-made people", Mind, 125: 1071-1099 [draft] [official]
2. (2014) "What do we want to know when we ask the Simple Question?", Philosophical Quarterly, 64: 254-66 [draft] [official]
1. (2010) "Is there a conservative solution to the Many Thinkers Problem?", Ratio, 23: 275-90 [draft] [official]
Articles in edited volumes
(2020) "Modality", in Michael J. Raven (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, 348-60 [draft]
Book reviews
4. (2019) Reality and Its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality, by Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest (ed.), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [official]
3. (2017) Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics, by Thomas Hofweber, Journal of Philosophy, 114 (11): 623-8 [draft] [official]
2. (2017) Experimental Metaphysics, by David Rose (ed.), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [official]
1. (2011) The Phenomenal Self, by Barry Dainton, Mind, 120 (480): 1242-7 [draft] [official]
Editing
(2012) Current Issues in Metaphysics, special issue of the Hungarian Philosophical Review, co-edited with Gábor Bács and János Tőzsér [link]
Works in progress (comments are very welcome!)
- a pair of papers making trouble for property dualism, focusing on the relation between the ontological categories of property and substance (w/ Daniel Giberman)
- a paper on the modal status of composition
- a paper on the metaphysics of nations
- a paper on the metaphysics of homelands
- a paper defending a deflationary response to debunking arguments against perceptual belief in ordinary objects
- a paper that tries to define causation in terms of explanation
- a paper arguing that there is a "too many thoughts" problem, over and above the "too many thinkers problem", and that it has surprising epistemological and ethical consequences
- a paper arguing that substance dualists, too, have a "too many thinkers" problem
- a paper arguing that what's at stake between Humean and anti-Humean theories of laws of nature is not whether the laws are reducible to particular matters of fact
- a paper on arguing for explanatory idealism from certain puzzles surrounding hybrid explanations
Journal articles
24. (forthcoming), "Property dualists shouldn't be nominalists about properties," Inquiry (with Dan Giberman) [official - open access]
23. (forthcoming), "Pregnant Thinkers," Philosophical Quarterly [draft] [official]
22. (2023), “Varieties of Grounding Skepticism,” The Monist, 106: 301–16 [draft] [official]
21. (2022), "Against the status response to the Argument from Vagueness", Synthese, 200: 468 [draft] [official]
20. (2022), "Self-making and Subpeople", Journal of Philosophy, 119 (9):461–88 [draft] [official]
19. (2022), "An explanatory idealist theory of grounding", Nous , 56: 530–53 [draft] [official]
18. (2022), "The Question of Iterated Causation", Philosophy ad Phenomenological Research, 104: 454–473 [draft] [official]
17.(2021), "There Is No Distinctively Semantic Circularity Objection to Humean Laws," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 51: 270–81 [official - open access]
16.(2021), "The oldest solution to the circularity problem for Humeanism about the laws of nature," Synthese, 198: 8933–8953 [draft] [official]
15.(2021), "What is priority monism?", Philosophical Studies, 178: 2873-93 [draft] [official]
14. (2021) "Intuitions about Objects: From Teleology to Elimination," Mind, 130: 199–213 [official]
13. (2021) "How to be an uncompromising revisionary ontologist," Synthese, 198: 2129–52 [draft] [official]
12. (2020) "Four Questions of Iterated Grounding," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 101: 341–64 [draft] [official]
11. (2020) "Constitution and Dependence," Journal of Philosophy, 117:150–77 [draft] [official]
10. (2020) "Diachronic self-making," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98: 349–62 [draft] [official]
9. (2020) "Metaphysically explanatory unification," Philosophical Studies, 177: 1659–83 [draft] [official]
8. (2019) "Deflationary Nominalism and Puzzle Avoidance," Philosophia Mathematica, 27: 88–104 [draft] [official]
7. (2019) "The myth of the myth of supervenience," Philosophical Studies, 176: 1967–89 [draft] [official]
6. (2018) "What is wrong with self-grounding?", Erkenntnis, 83: 1157–1180 [draft] [official]
5. (2018) "The Deflationary Theory of Ontological Dependence," Philosophical Quarterly, 68: 481–502 [draft] [official]
4. (2017) "Grounding and the Argument from Explanatoriness", Philosophical Studies, 174: 2927–52 [draft] [official]
3. (2016) "Self-made people", Mind, 125: 1071-1099 [draft] [official]
2. (2014) "What do we want to know when we ask the Simple Question?", Philosophical Quarterly, 64: 254-66 [draft] [official]
1. (2010) "Is there a conservative solution to the Many Thinkers Problem?", Ratio, 23: 275-90 [draft] [official]
Articles in edited volumes
(2020) "Modality", in Michael J. Raven (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, 348-60 [draft]
Book reviews
4. (2019) Reality and Its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality, by Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest (ed.), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [official]
3. (2017) Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics, by Thomas Hofweber, Journal of Philosophy, 114 (11): 623-8 [draft] [official]
2. (2017) Experimental Metaphysics, by David Rose (ed.), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [official]
1. (2011) The Phenomenal Self, by Barry Dainton, Mind, 120 (480): 1242-7 [draft] [official]
Editing
(2012) Current Issues in Metaphysics, special issue of the Hungarian Philosophical Review, co-edited with Gábor Bács and János Tőzsér [link]
Works in progress (comments are very welcome!)
- a pair of papers making trouble for property dualism, focusing on the relation between the ontological categories of property and substance (w/ Daniel Giberman)
- a paper on the modal status of composition
- a paper on the metaphysics of nations
- a paper on the metaphysics of homelands
- a paper defending a deflationary response to debunking arguments against perceptual belief in ordinary objects
- a paper that tries to define causation in terms of explanation
- a paper arguing that there is a "too many thoughts" problem, over and above the "too many thinkers problem", and that it has surprising epistemological and ethical consequences
- a paper arguing that substance dualists, too, have a "too many thinkers" problem
- a paper arguing that what's at stake between Humean and anti-Humean theories of laws of nature is not whether the laws are reducible to particular matters of fact
- a paper on arguing for explanatory idealism from certain puzzles surrounding hybrid explanations