Philosophy (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry
(2022)A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, ... -
Libertatea de exprimare si deplatformarea (Freedom of expression and deplatforming)
(Polirom, 2021)Some complain that either the right to freedom of speech or expression or people’s freedom is being restricted in recent times by calls for no platforming certain individuals. This paper aims to argue that such complaints ... -
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, ... -
Foundational Grounding and Creaturely Freedom
(2021)The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could ... -
Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion
(Oxford University Press, 2022)In 1705, Mary Astell and Damaris Masham both published works advocating for women’s use of individual judgment in matters of religion. Although both philosophers advocate for women’s education and intellectual autonomy, ... -
God's Perfect Will: Remarks on Johnston and O'Connor
(Oxford University Press, 2022)How can God's creative decision be free? Why would God create anything at all? Why would God create a world like this one, with all of its evils? These puzzles lie at the heart of classical theism. Mark Johnston has argued ... -
Thinking with the Cartesians and Speaking with the Vulgar: Extrinsic Denomination in the Philosophy of Antoine Arnauld
(2022)Arnauld follows Descartes in denying that sensible qualities like color are modes of external objects. Yet, unlike Malebranche, he resists the apparent implication that ordinary statements like ‘this marble is white’ are ... -
Exploring people s beliefs about the experience of time
(2021)Philosophical debates about the metaphysics of time typically revolve around two contrasting views of time. On the A-theory, time is something that itself undergoes change, as captured by the idea of the passage of time; ... -
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 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. ... -
Frege 2.0. Was Frege gesagt hätte, wenn er gewusst hätte, was wir heute wissen (und was er vielleicht hätte sagen sollen).
(Logos, 2015)Der Widerspruch im Herzen des logischen Systems Freges zwingt zu einer Revision seiner Annahmen. Es fragt sich, wie er sein System hätte anders bauen können, wenn er von vorneherein die Gefahr ... -
State rights as group rights: an analytical perspective
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A human right to health?
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Are We Free to Break the Laws of Providence?
(2020)Can I be free to perform an action if God has decided to ensure that I do not choose that action? I show that Molinists and simple foreknowl- edge theorists are committed to answering in the affirmative. This is problematic ... -
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 ... -
Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel
(2020)Do time travellers retain their normal freedom and abilities when they travel back in time? Lewis, Horwich and Sider argue that they do. Time-travelling Tim can kill his young grandfather, his younger self, or whomever ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
