Papers

2023

• Reflections on the Asymmetry of Causation

  Interface Focus 13: 20220081. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0081.

• The Neuroconnectionist Research Programme

  With Doerig, A., Sommers, R.P., Seeliger, K., et al., Nat Rev Neurosci 24, 431–450 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-023-00705-w.

• Rethinking Time and Determinism: what happens to determinism when you take relativity seriously

  Time and Science, edited by Remy Lestienne and Paul Harris, World Scientific Publishing.

• Humean Disillusion

  Humean Laws for Humean Agents, edited by Christian Low, Michael Hicks and Sigried Jaag, Oxford University Press.

2022

• Why Physics Should Care about the Mind, and How to Think About it Without Worrying About the Mind-Body Problem

  Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness, edited by Shan Gao, Oxford University Press, 2022.

• Time and the Visual Imagination: from physics to philosophy

  Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Mind, vol. 2, edited by Uriah Kriegel, Oxford University Press.

2021

• Symmetry and Superfluous Structure: Lessons from History and Tempered Enthusiasm

  Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics, edited by Eleonor Knox and Alastair Wilson, Routledge.

• Do You See Space? How to Recover the Visible and Tangible Reality of Space (Without Space)

  Philosophy Beyond Space-time 2, edited by Christian Wuthrich and Nick Huggett, Oxford University Press.

2020

• Space, Quantum Mechanics, and Bohm’s Fishtank

  The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time, Eds. David Glick and Anna Marmodoro, Oxford University Press.

• On Chance: or Why I am (only) Half-Humean

  Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science, edited by Shamik Dasgupta, Routledge.

2019

• Experience, Transformation and Imagination

  Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 10 (3):330-338.

• Determinism, Counterpredictive Devices, and the Impossibility of Laplacean Intelligences

  The Monist, Special Issue edited by Gordon Belot.

• Causation: an Overview of our Emerging Understanding

  Time and Causality across the Sciences, edited by Samantha Kleinberg, Cambridge University Press.

2018

• Causal Content and Global Laws

  The Experimental Side of Modeling, edited by Isabelle F. Peschard, and Fraassen, Bas C. van, University of Minnesota Press.

2017

• Why Study the Humanities? The view from science

  New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding, edited by Stephen Grimm, Oxford University Press.

• Passage, Flow, and the Logic of Temporal Perspectives

  The Nature of Time, The Time of Nature, edited by Christophe Bouton and Phillippe Hunemann, University of Chicago Press.

2016

• Quantum Holism: Nonseparability as Common Ground

  With Johnathan Schaffer, Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1201-2.

• A Philosopher of Science Looks at Ideal Theory

  Social Philosophy and Policy, 33:1-2, p.11-31.

• Which Curie’s Principle

  With Elena Castellani. Philosophy of Science, 83(5): 1002–1013.

• An Empiricist’s Guide to Objective Modality

  Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, edited by Zanja Yudell and Matthew Slater, Oxford University Press.

• How Do Causes Depend On Us? The Many Faces of Perspectivism

  Synthese, 193:2.

• From Physical Time to Human Time

  Edited by Yuval Abrams, in Cosmological and Psychological Time, Springer.

2015

• On Whether the Atemporal Conception of the World is also Amodal

  Analytic Philosophy, 56 (2), p. 142-157.

• Sleeping Beauty and Slacker Bob

  Unpublished.

• How to be Humean

  A Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Johnathan Schaffer, Wiley Blackwell, p.188-205, 2015.

• In Defense of the Chance-Mixing Principle: Response to Pettigrew

  Nous, 49:1, p. 197-200.

• Do statistical mechanical probabilities need quantum shuffling? Albert’s Boltzmannian Story and GRW collapses

  Unpublished.

• Quantum Mechanics

  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)

2014

• On Being Some-One

  Surrounding Free Will, edited by Al Mele, Oxford University Press, p. 274-297.

• Metaphysics on the Sydney Plan

  Philosophical Methodology; the Armchair or the Laboratory, edited by Mathew Haug, Routledge, p. 86-103.

2013

• Simplicity as a Guide to Scientific Metaphysics

  Unpublished.

• The Tension in Humeanism

  Unpublished.

2012

• Causation, Free Will, and Naturalism

  Scientific Metaphysics, edited by Harold Kincaid, James Ladyman, and Don Ross, Oxford University Press, p. 208-236.

• Immunity to Error as an Artefact of Transition Between Representational Media

  Immunity to Error through Misidentification: New Essays, edited by Simon Prosser and François Recanati, Cambridge University Press, p. 62-80.

2011

• Reflexivity, Fixed points, and Semantic Descent; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Reflexivity

  Acta Analytica, 26 (4), p. 295-310.

• Decision and the Open Future

  The Future of the Philosophy of Time, edited by Adrian Bardon, Routledge, p. 149-168.

• A Modest Proposal About Chance

  Journal of Philosophy, 108 (8), p. 416-442.

• Precis for Symposium on The Situated Self

  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82 (3), p. 733-748.

• Replies to Symposiasts

  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82 (3), p. 752-758.

• Self-Organization and Self-Governance

  Philosophy of the Social Sciences, S. 41(3), 327-351.

2010

• Temporal Experience

  Oxford Handbook on Time, edited by Craig Callender, Oxford University Press.

2009

• Probability in Deterministic Physics

  Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, 106 (2):89-108.

2008

• Raid! The Big, Bad Bug Dissolved

  Nous, Volume 42, Number 2.

• An Objectivist Argument for Thirdism

  With the OSCAR seminar, Analysis 68 (2):149-155.

• Me, again

  Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 6: Time and Identity, edited by Keirn-Campbell, O’Rourke, and Shier, MIT Press.

2007

• Freedom, Compulsion, and Causation

  Psyche, 13/1, April.

2006

• The Ethical Importance of Death

  Death And Anti-Death, Volume 4: Twenty Years After De Beauvoir, Thirty Years After Heidegger, edited by Charles Tandy, Palo Alto: Ria University Press, reprinted in Introduction to Philosophy: Contemporary Readings, edited by John Perry, Michael Bratman, John Martin Fischer, Oxford University Press (2012, 2018).

• Doublemindedness; a model for a dual-content cognitive architecture

  Psyche, vol. 12.

• Saving the Baby: Dennett on Autobiography, Agency, and the Self

  Philosophical Psychology, 19:3, 345-360, DOI: 10.1080/09515080600690565

2004

• Nolipsism: So You Think You Exist, Do You?

  With John Pollock. In Knowlege and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga (Kluwer), edited by Thomas Crisp, Matthew Davidson, and David Vander Laan, Springer Verlag.

• Addendum to How to Combine Chance and Determinism: Response to Lewis

  Unpublished.

2003

• How to Combine Chance and Determinism: Thinking About the Future in an Everett Universe

  Philosophy of Science, Volume 70, Issue 4, October 2003, pp. 776-790. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/378864

• Symmetry as a Guide to Superfluous Theoretical Structure

  With Bas van Fraassen. In Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Elena Castellani and Katherine Brading, Cambridge University Press.

2002

• Closed Causal Loops and the Bilking Argument

  Synthese, vol 136, no. 3, p. 305-320.

2001

• Remembrances, Mementos, and Time Capsules

  Time, Reality, and Experience, edited by Craig Callender. Cambridge University Press.

1999

• Science and the Phenomenal

  Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 351-369.

1997

• Curie’s Principle

  Synthese, F 97. 110(2), 167-190. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1004929109216

1996

• What Chances Could Not Be

  British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol 37, Number 1. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/bjps/47.1.79.