Education

2007               PhD in Philosophy, London School of Economics [PhD thesis]

2002               MSc in Philosophy and History of Science, London School of Economics

2000               Laurea in Filosofia, Universita' di Roma 'La Sapienza'

Employment

2007-Present   Assistant Professor (with Early Tenure since July 2010), Carleton University

2006-2007       Visiting Assistant Professor,  Philosophy, University of Rochester

Publications: Book

  1. Models and Representation (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan as part of their new series New Directions in Philosophy of Science, (series editor Steven French)), in preparation.

Publications: Edited Volumes

  1. Guest Editor, Synthese (Special issue: The Ontology of Scientific Models), 172, 2010. (featuring papers by (in alphabetical order) Anjan Chakravartty, Steven French, Roman Frigg, Ronald Giere, Martin Thompson-Jones, Adam Toon, and myself).

Publications: Journal Articles  

  1. 'The Junk Argument: Safe Disposal Guidelines for Mereological Universalists' to appear in Analysis, 72(3), 2012.* NEW!
  2. 'Sweet Nothings' to appear in Analysis (as part of a book symposium on Jody Azzouni's Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions, OUP, 2010). NEW!
  3. 'Do Extrinsic Dispositions Need Extrinsic Causal Bases?' to appear in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.* [PhilPapers]
  4. 'Empiricist Structuralism and Metaphysical Antirealism', Analysis, 70:514-524, 2010 (as part of a book symposium on Bas van Fraassen's Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, OUP, 2008). [PhilPapers]
  5. 'Modal Truthmakers and Two Varieties of Actualism', Synthese, 174: 341–353, 2010.* [PhilPapers]
  6. ‘Scientific Models and Fictional Objects’, Synthese, 172: 215–229, 2010. [PhilPapers]
  7. A Note on the Nomic Possibility of a Dynamic Shift’, Erkenntnis 68: 187–190, 2008.* [PhilPapers]
  8. ‘Scientific Representation, Interpretation, and Surrogative Reasoning’, Philosophy of Science 74: 48–68, 2007.*[PhilPapers]
  9. ‘There are Kinds and Kinds of Kinds: Ben-Yami on the Semantics of Natural Kind Terms’, Philosophical Studies, 136 (2): 217–248, 2007.* [PhilPapers]
  10. ‘Constructive Empiricism, Observability, and Three Kinds of Ontological Commitment’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (3): 454–468, 2006.* [PhilPapers]
  11. ‘On the Supposed Temporal Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence, or It Wouldn’t Have Taken a Miracle!’, dialectica, 60 (4): 461–473, 2006.* [PhilPapers]
      * Refereed 

Publications: Book Chapters

  1. 'Scientific Models and Representation' in J. Saatsi and S. French (eds.) The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Continuum Press, 120–137, 2011. [PDF]
  2. Keeping Track of Neurath’s Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models, and the Unity of Classical Physics,’ (with Nancy Cartwright and Sheldon Steed) in J. Symons, O. Pombo (ed.), The Unity of Science: Essays in Honor of Otto Neurath, Kluwer, 95–108, 2011. [PDF]
  3. ‘Who is Afraid of Imaginary Objects?’, in D. Jacquette and N. Griffin (eds.) Russell vs Meinong: The Legacy of ‘On Denoting’, Routledge: 248–265, 2008. 
      * Refereed 

Publications: Reviews

  1. Review of Bas van Fraassen's Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (OUP 2008), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009. [HTML]
  2. ‘Scientific Models, Partial Structures and the New Received View of Theories’ (Essay Review of Newton da Costa and Steven French’s Science and Partial Truth), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2), 2006.* 

Presentations

  • 'Scientific Realism: Between Theories and Models', to be presented at Models and Simulations 4, University of Toronto, May 2010.
  • 'Shoemaker's Key, Extrinsic Dispositions, and Causal Bases', Metaphysics of Science, University of Nottingham, September 2009.
  • ‘Dispositions and Interferences’, Philosophy Colloquium, Université du Montréal, March 2009.
  • ‘Knowledge, “Expectedness”, and the Problem of Old Evidence’, Philosophy of Science Association 21st Biennial Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2008 as part of the symposium New Perspectives on Old Evidence. (Other participants: Clark Glymour, Branden Fitelson, and Jim Joyce.)*
  • ‘How to Be A Good Nomic Supervenientist (And Why Not to Be a Nomic Supervenientist at All), Logic and Philosophy of Science Group, University of Toronto, March 2008.  
  • ‘Scientific Models as Imaginary Objects,’ Scientific Models: Semantics and Ontology Workshop, Universidade de Barcelona, July 2007.
  • ‘Gone with the Wind: Cartwright and Her Critics on the Neurath’s Bill Case’ accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Bristol, July 2007.*
  • ‘Scientific Representation, Similarity and Substitution,’ Philosophy of Science Association 20th Biennial Meeting, Vancouver, November 2006.*
  • ‘An Argument against the Conflation of Representation and Denotation’, selected for presentation at the Representation in Science and Art conference, LSE/Courtauld Institute, June 2006.*
  • ‘Contextual Realism: Scientific Models, Representation and the Breakdown of the Scientific Realism Debate’, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, York University, May 2006.
  • 'On the Alleged Temporal Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence', 3rd London-Berkeley Graduate Philosophy Conference, School of Advanced Studies, May 2006.*
  • ‘Scientific Representation, Similarity and Substitution’ European Conference of Analytic Philosophy 2005, Universidade de Lisboa, August 2005.*
  • ‘The Holy Grail of Objective Explanation: the Ideal Explanatory Text, Understanding and Real Explanations’, Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, August 2005.
  • ‘Scientific Representation, Similarity and Substitution’ accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, University of Manchester, July 2005.*
  • ‘Scientific Representation, Similarity and Prediction’, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.*
  • ‘Scientific Representation, Similarity and Prediction’, the Leverhulme Evidence Project Prediction and Forecasting series, University College London, May 2005.
  • ‘Who is Afraid of Imaginary Objects?’, accepted for presentation at the Russell vs. Meinong: One Hundred Years after on Denoting conference, McMaster University, May 2005.*
  • ‘Scientific Models, Representation and Similarity’, Workshop on Models, CPNSS, London School of Economics, March 2005.
  • ‘Who is Afraid of Imaginary Objects?’, Philosophy Graduate Conference, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, November 2004.

* Refereed 

Refereeing

  • British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,
  • Canadian Philosophical Association,
  • Dialectica,
  • Erkenntnis,
  • European Journal for the Philosophy of Science,
  • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
  • The Monist,
  • Philosopher's Imprint,
  • The Philosophical Quarterly,
  • Philosophical Studies,
  • Philosophy Compass,
  • Synthese,
  • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,
  • University of Chicago Press.

Teaching

  • Lower Division Courses:
    • Introduction to Logic (W2010).
    • Issues in Theoretical Philosophy (An Argument Analysis-Based Intro to Philosophy for Philosophy Majors) (F2007, F2008, F2009, W2012).
    • Informal Logic/Critical Thinking (F2006).
    • Philosophy of Science (W2007; W2009).
  • Upper Division Courses:
    • Metaphysics (W2008, W2010).
    • Epistemology (F2008).
    • Mathematical Logic (W2007).
    • Scientific Realism (F2007)
  • Graduate Courses:
    • Dispositions and Laws of Nature (F2006).
    • Possible Worlds (W2008).
    • Material Constitution (F2009).
    • Core Grad Seminar (W2009).
    • Powers (W2012).

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