Bits and Pieces

Items of this page are mostly abandoned papers or unpolished notes.

Caveat lector!

Drawing with Asymptote: An amateurish tutorial (2022)

My Ted Talk (handout for an APA author meets critics session on Ted Sider’s Tools of Metaphysics, 2023)

Boltzmann Brains (written for The Grue, the University of Michigan philosophy newsletter, 2021 )

Two Arguments for the Conventionality of Spacetime Topology (handout for talks at the Perimeter Institute and in Lausanne, 2011–2013)

Difficulty Itself (aka Curve-Fitting!! A preliminary version of Objectivity and Bias, 2011–2014)

Notes on Underdetermination in Geophysics (Lecture notes Fall 2012)

Notes on Akaike, Parsimony, and Model Selection (Lecture notes Fall 2012)

Notes on Descartes on Rotation and the Tendency to Recede (2002-2003)