Papers

These are penultimate drafts; for citation please consult the final published versions. You can jump to Articles, Dissertation, Reviews, or Work in progress

Articles

• "Tooley's Solution to the Inference Problem"
• "In Defense of Global Supervenience"
• "Van Inwagen and the Possibility of Gunk"
• "Sorensen on Unknowable Obligations"
• "Three Problems for Richard's Theory of Belief Ascription"
• "Sparseness, Immanence, and Naturalness"
• "Naturalness and Arbitrariness"
• "Intrinsic Properties"
• "All the World's a Stage"
• "A New Grandfather Paradox?"
• "On the Paradox of the Question"
• "Four Dimensionalism"
• Critical Study of Michael Jubien's Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference
• "Presentism and Ontological Commitment"
• "Global Supervenience and Identity across Times and Worlds"
• "Simply Possible"
• "Recent Work on Identity Over Time"
• "The Stage View and Temporary Intrinsics"
• "Criteria of Personal Identity and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis"
• "Maximality and Intrinsic Properties"
• "The Ersatz Pluriverse"
• "Hell and Vagueness"
• "Time Travel, Coincidences and Counterfactuals"
• "Locations", with John Hawthorne
• "Maximality and Microphysical Supervenience"
• "Against Vague Existence"
• "Reductive Theories of Modality"
• "What's So Bad about Overdetermination?"
• "Precis of Four-Dimensionalism, and Replies to Critics"
• "Another Look at Armstrong's Combinatorialism"
• "Traveling in A- and B- Time"
• "Quantifiers and Temporal Ontology"
• "Kripke's Revenge", with David Braun
• " "Bare Particulars" "
• "Against Monism"
• "Parthood"
• "Vague, So Untrue" (with David Braun)
• "NeoFregeanism and Quantifier Variance"
• "Temporal Parts"
• "Ontological Realism"
• "Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument against Coincident Entities"
• "Against Vague and Unnatural Existence: Reply to Liebesman and Eklund"

Dissertation

• "Naturalness, Intrinsicality, and Duplication"

Reviews

• André Gallois, Occasions of Identity
• Charles Chihara, The Worlds of Possibility
• Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies
• Trenton Merricks, Objects and Persons

Work in progress

• "Beyond the Humphrey Objection"
• "Reducing Modality"
• "Monism and Statespace Structure"