Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Makers and Models: Two Approaches to truth, and their Merger
(de Gruyter, 2015) -
Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic Against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues
(Oxford University Press, 2018) -
Meaning and Dummett's Austrians
(Palsgrave-Macmillan, 2015) -
Media and their Emergence: the Ontology
(Oxford University Press, 2015) -
Mereological Idealism
(Oxford University Press, 2017) -
Mereology and Truth-Making
(2015)M any mereological propositions are true contingently, so we are entitled to ask why they are true. One frequently given type of answer to such questions evokes truth-makers, that is, entities in virtue of whose ... -
Metaphysical Necessity Dualism
(2018)A popular response to the Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that mental events depend on their physical bases in such a way that the causation of a physical effect by a mental event and its physical base needn’t ... -
Metaphysics in Analytic Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 2013) -
Moralised Definitions of Freedom, Autonomy, and the Personal Value of Opportunities to Perform Morally Impermissible Actions
(2021)Are the opportunities to perform morally impermissible actions valuable? And, if so, has their value any role to play in normative arguments? In this essay I examine the personal value of opportunities to perform morally ... -
Naturalism, Functionalism and Chance: Not a Best Fit for the Humean
(Oxford University Press, 2023)How should we give accounts of scientific modal relations, such as laws and chances? According the Humean, we should do so by reducing these relations to parts of non-modal actuality: typically, patterns in actual events, ... -
Obituary of B. Sharon Byrd
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Ontic Generation: Getting Everything from the Basics
(Ontos, 2009)Properly executed, metaphysics consists in part of painstaking ontological detail and in part of grand systematic speculation. The distinction between these two aspects is not new: it is inspired by Wolff?s distinction ... -
The Ontology and Logic of Higher-Order Multitudes
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Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods
(2020)It seems self‐evident that people prefer painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future. Indeed, it has been claimed that, for hedonic goods, this preference is absolute (Sullivan, ... -
Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge
(2020)The central unifying element in the philosophy of Peter Browne (d. 1735) is his theory of analogy. Although Browne's theory was originally developed to deal with some problems about religious language, Browne regards analogy ... -
The Realization of Qualia, Persons, and Artifacts
(2018)This article argues that standard causal and functionalist definitions of realization fail to account for the realization of entities that cannot be individuated in causal or functional terms. By modifying such definitions ... -
Reciprocal Libertarianism
(2022)Reciprocal libertarianism is a version of left-wing libertarianism that combines self-ownership with an egalitarian distribution of resources according to reciprocity. In this paper I show that reciprocal libertarianism ... -
Relations and Idealism
(2014)
