Publications

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You can find more info on the broader research projects these are part of at the following:

Book

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The Metaphysics of Representation, OUP (2020)

(Now out in paperback, with typos corrected!)

Analysis symposium:
Author: Precis.
Critic: How wrong can you be? Imogen Dickie
Critic: Varieties of Interpretationism about belief and desire. Adam Pautz
Critic: Interpretivism and Inferentialism. David Chalmers
Author: Reply to Critics.

Critical Notice by Anandi Hattiangadi “Substantive Radical Interpretation and the problem of underdetermination”(Analysis).
Review by Adam Pautz (Mind).
Review by Mark Pinder (Philosophical Quarterly).
Review by Giulia Felappi (Philosophy)

Publications

  1. “Consequences of Calibration“. (with Richard Pettigrew) British Journal for Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
  2. “Aptness and means-end coherence: a dominance argument for causal decision theory”. Synthese forthcoming.
  3. “Commitment problems in the naive theory of belief” forthcoming in Unstructured Content, Kindermann, van Elswyk, and Egan (eds), OUP.
  4. “Radical parochialism about reference” (with Will Gamester) Nous forthcoming.
  5. “Indeterminacy and Triviality” (with Paolo Santorio) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2022.
  6. “Publicity and common commitment to believe” Erkenntnis 2021.
  7. “The cognitive role of fictionality” (with Rich Woodward) Philosophy and Phenomological Research (2021).
  8. “Precis” and “Reply to Critics”in Analysis Reviews (2021).
  9. The Metaphysics of Representation, OUP (2020)
  10. “Words by convention” (with Gail Leckie) Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Language (2019)
  11. “Normative reference magnets” Philosophical Review (2018).
  12. “Rational illogicality”  Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96: 1 (2018).
  13. “Indeterminate Oughts” Ethics 127:3 (2017).
  14. “Representational Scepticism: the bubble puzzle” in Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics, supplement to Nous, 30:1 (2016) pp. 419–442
  15. “Probability and nonclassical logic”  Oxford Handbook to Probability and Philosophy, ed Hajek and Hitchcock, OUP (2016).
  16. “Angst, indeterminacy and conflicting values”.  Ratio 29:4 (2016)
    pp.412–433.
  17. “Vagueness as indecision” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume (2016)
  18. “Lewis on reference and eligiblity” in Companion to David Lewis, Loewer and Schaffer, eds (2015).
  19. “Logical norms, accuracy and degree of belief” in Foundations of Logical Consequence ed. Caret and Hjortland,  OUP (2015).
  20. “Nonclassical minds and indeterminate survival” Philosophical Review (2014).
  21. “Decision making under indeterminacy”  Philosophers’ Imprint 14:4 (2014).
  22. “Davidson on Reference” in Companion to Donald Davidson, Ludwig and Lepore eds (2013)
  23. “An argument for conjunction conditionalization” (with Lee Walters). Review of Symbolic Logic. 6:4 (2013).
  24. “Part-intrinsicality” Nous (2013)
  25. “Counterfactual triviality: A Lewis-impossibility proof for counterfactuals” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2012).
  26. “Vagueness”. (2012) Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell (eds.).
  27. “Chancy counterfactuals, redux” Analytic Philosophy 53(4): 352-361 (Dec 2012).
  28. “Requirements on reality” in Grounding and Explanation Correira and Schneider, eds. (CUP, 2012)
  29. “Gradational Accuracy and non-classical semantics” Review of Symbolic Logic (2012).
  30. “Indeterminacy and Normative silence” Analysis (2012).
  31. “Generalized Probabilism: dutch books and accuracy domination” Journal of Philosophical Logic (2012)
  32. “Chancy counterfactuals, redux” Analytic Philosophy 53(4): 352-361 (Dec 2012).
  33. (with Elizabeth Barnes) “A theory of metaphysical indeterminacy” and “Response to Eklund” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2011, Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman, eds.)
  34. “Degree supervaluational logic” Review of Symbolic Logic (August 2010)
  35. “Defending conditional excluded middle” Nous 44(4): 650-668 (August 2010)
  36. “Fundamental and derivative truths” Mind 119(473): 103-141 (January 2010)
  37. “Vagueness, conditionals and probability” in Erkenntnis 70(2): 151-171 (March 2009)
  38. (with Elizabeth Barnes) “Vague parts and vague identity” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90:2: 176-187. June 2009
  39. “Multiple actualities and ontically vague identity”; Philosophical Quarterly 58(230): 134-154 (January 2008).
  40. “Supervaluationism and logical revisionism”; The Journal of Philosophy, vol.CV(4), 2008.
  41. “Conversation and conditionals”; Philosophical Studies 138(2): 211-223 (March, 2008)
  42. “Chances, counterfactuals and similarity”; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol 77(2), 2008
  43. “The Price of Inscrutability”; in Nous vol 42(4): 600-641 (2008).
  44. “Gavagai again”; Synthese 164(2): 235-259 (September 2008).
  45. “Ontic Vagueness and Metaphysical Indeterminacy”; Philosophy Compass, vol 3, 2008.
  46. “Permutations and Foster problems: two puzzles or one?“; Ratio Vol XXI(1): 91-105 (March 2008)
  47. “Working parts: reply to Mellor” in Being: Contemporary Developments in Metaphysics, edited by Robin LePoidevin, Cambridge University Press (2008). Penultimate Draft.
  48. “Eligibility and Inscrutability“; Philosophical Review 116(3): 361-399 (July 2007); winner of the Philosophical Review Young Philosopher’s Essay Competition
  49. “The possibility of onion worlds”; Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2), 193-203 (June 2007). Penultimate Draft
  50. “An argument for the many“; Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2006) 411-417
  51. “Illusions of gunk“; Philosophical Perspectives (2006, Metaphysics), John Hawthorne, ed. Vol. 20 (1), 493-513.

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Reviews