John Cusbert's Philosophy Page

About me

I completed a doctorate in philosophy at the Australian National University (2013), then worked as a research fellow at the University of Sydney (2014), the University of Oxford (2014-16), and the ANU (2017-18), after which I stopped working full-time as a philosopher.

Published writing

  • How Stable is Objective Chance? [2022] The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 73(3) 613-629. doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy069

  • Comparing Existence and Non-existence [2022] in J. McMahan, T. Campbell, J. Goodrich, and K. Ramakrishnan (eds.) Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford University Press (Co-author: Hilary Greaves) Oxford University Press

  • A Consequentialist Account of Narveson's Dictum [2018] Philosophical Studies 176(7) 1693-1709. (Co-author: Robyn Kath) doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1085-8

  • Backwards Causation and the Chancy Past [2018] Mind 127(505) 1-33. doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzw053

  • Two Flavours of Mathematical Explanation [2018] in A. Reutlinger and J. Saatsi (eds.), Explanation Beyond Causation, Oxford University Press. (Co-authors: Mark Colyvan, Kelvin McQueen) Oxford University Press

  • The Unique Groundability of Temporal Facts [2018] Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97(2) 410-432. (Co-author: Kristie Miller) doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12374

  • Acting on Essentially Comparative Goodness [2017] Thought 6(2) 73-83. doi.org/10.1002/tht3.240

  • Temporal Experience, Temporal Passage and the Cognitive Sciences [2015] Philosophy Compass 10(8) 560-71. (Co-authors: Sam Baron, Matt Farr, Maria Kon, Kristie Miller.) doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12244

  • Recent Uses of Bayesianism [2013] In Byron Kaldis (ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage. (Co-author: Alan Hájek.) Amazon

  • Logic: The Drill [2012] Princeton University Press. (Co-author: Nicholas J. J. Smith.) PDF

PhD dissertation

  • The Arrow of Chance [2013] Australian National University. (Winner of J. G. Crawford Prize) (PDF)