Dan Marshall

I primarily work in metaphysics and in related areas in logic, philosophy of language and the philosophy of science.  I have a MSc in mathematics from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in philosophy from the Australian National University. I completed my PhD in 2011 and am currently an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Below is a list of talks and papers. Any questions or comments are welcome. For any papers which don't have links, please feel free to email me for a copy.

My email address is danmarshall@ln.edu.hk.

Work in progress:

1. ‘How to do Semantics without Semantic Values’ 

2. ‘The Objectual-Aboutness Theory of States of Affairs'

3. ‘Grounding and Fact Granularity’

4. ‘A Reduction of Objectual Aboutness’

5. ‘The Aboutness Argument against the Modal Theory’

6. ‘Nominalism and Ideological Parsimony’

7. 'Metaphysical Structualism'

8. 'Newtonian vs. Galilean Substantivalism in Newtonian Physics' (Pacific AAP 2024 Version)

Published Papers:

1. ‘The Dual-Detector Argument against the Modal Theory’, Dialectica, forthcoming

2.  `Causation and Fact Granularity', Synthese, 199 (2021), 8029–8045

3. `A Temporal Comparison Argument for Presentism', Philosophical Perspectives, 36 (2022), no. 1, 182–215

4. ‘Objectual Aboutness’, Inquiry, (2021), DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1954992

5.  ‘Plate’s Account of Intrinsicality’, Inquiry, (2021), DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2021.1884130 

6. ‘Intrinsicality and the Classification of Uninstantiable Properties’, Philosophical Studies, 178 (2021), 731–753

7. ‘Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties’, (co-authored with Brian Weatherson), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2018) Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =  http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/intrinsic-extrinsic/  Fourth Edition

8. 'A Puzzle for Modal Realism', Philosopher’s Imprint, 16 (2016), no. 19, 1-24 

9. 'Humean Laws and Explanation', Philosophical Studies, 172 (2015), no. 12, 3145-3165 

10. 'An Analysis of Intrinsicality', Nous, 50 (2016), no. 4, 704-739

11.  'The Varieties of Intrinsicality', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 92 (2016), no. 2, 237–263 

12.  'Yablo's Account of Intrinsicality', in Robert Francescotti (eds.), Companion to Intrinsic Properties: De Gruyter, 2014

13.  'Intrinsicality and Grounding', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90 (2015), no. 1, 1–19

14.  'Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties', (co-authored with Brian Weatherson), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) (2013) Third Edition

15.  'Analyses of Intrinsicality without Naturalness', Philosophy Compass 8 (2013), no. 2, 186-197

16.  'Analyses of Intrinsicality in terms of Naturalness', Philosophy Compass 7 (2012), no. 8, 531-542

17.  'Can "Intrinsic" be Defined using only Broadly Logical Notions?', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (2009), no. 3, 646-672

18.  'The Product of a Nonsymmetric Jack Polynomial with a Linear Function', Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 131 (2002), no. 6, 1817-1827

19.  'Langton and Lewis on "Intrinsic"', (co-authored with Josh Parsons), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2001), no. 2, 347-352

20.  'Symmetric and Nonsymmetric Macdonald Polynomials', Annals of Combinatorics 3 (1999), no. 2-4, 384-415

PhD Dissertation: `Counterfactuality, Reduction, and the Argument for Possible Worlds from Theoretical Virtue'

MSc Dissertation: `Macdonald Polynomials'

Talks: 

1. 'Counterpart Theory and The Problem of Actuality'