Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
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Language and Ontological Emergence
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Mereological Idealism
(Oxford University Press, 2017) -
Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism
(2017)The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since (1) every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and (2) cases of causal overdetermination are rare, it follows that if (3) mental events cause physical ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
A Deliberative Approach to Causation
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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 ... -
Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic Against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues
(Oxford University Press, 2018) -
Causation: Further Themes
(Taylor and Francis, 2018) -
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 ... -
Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas
(2019)A great deal of the criticism directed at Locke’s theory of abstract ideas assumes that a Lockean abstract idea is a special kind of idea which by its very nature either represents many diverse particulars or represents ... -
Infinite Power and Finite Powers
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) -
Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics?
(2019)There are temporal asymmetries in our attitudes towards the past and future. For example, we judge that a given amount of work is worth twice as much if it is described as taking place in the future, compared to the past ... -
The Hard Problem Isn't Getting Any Easier: Thoughts on Chalmers' "Meta-problem"
(2020)Chalmers’ meta-problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining “problem reports”; i.e. reports to the effect that phenomenal consciousness has the various features that give rise to the hard problem. Chalmers (2018, ... -
Attention, Gestalt Principles, and the Determinacy of Perceptual Content
(2020)Theories of phenomenal intentionality have been claimed to resolve certain worries about the indeterminacy of mental content that rival, externalist theories face. Thus far, however, such claims have been largely programmatic. ... -
Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil
(2020)The logical problem of evil is the appearance of inconsistency between the existence of God and the existence of any evil at all. A defence against the logical problem of evil is an argument that purports to show that ...
