Unpublished work
On this page is work that is likely to remain unpublished. You can click on the links to freely download.
We have decided to make this paper available freely and online only to see how it compares against a traditional publication route.
Oration for Professor David Armstrong
Delivered in 2007 on the award of a University of Nottingham Doctor of Letters, honoris causa
Laws and Their Exceptions
Published only in French as 'Les lois de la nature at leurs exceptions', this is the original English version.
Reference and New Essence
Published in French as 'La référence et le nouvel essentialisme', this is the original English version
Ways of Watching Sport
Presented at SUNY Brockport in September 2011 and at the Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture series on sport.
Aesthetic and Ethical values in Sport and their Interconnection
This paper summarises parts of Watching Sport and was presented at the BPSA conference in Prague and at Brockport, NY, USA.
How Do We Have Any Idea of Modality At All?
I presented this paper in L'Aquila, Italy, in 2011 at a conference on modal epistemology.
Reason and Experience: Is There a 'Problem' of Induction?
This paper dissolves the problem of induction. It was written for a school sixth-form philosophy day that was cancelled and it has thus never been presented.
Understanding Character the Dispositional Way
This paper was presented in Paris in autumn 2010 at a conference on personal dispositions.
Kausalitet og Disposisjoner (with Rani Lill Anjum)
A Norwegian-language handout that explains the basics of Causal Dispositionalism
This paper was presented in Nottingham circa 2008 and is intended as the basis for a chapter in A Book About Nothing.
With Rani Lill Anjum, this paper dates from 2008. I don't know where or when it was presented.
Powers as Causal Truthmakers
This long 2007 paper (11,000 words) was the first I co-wrote with Rani Lill Anjum. We decided there was so much in it that we would turn it into a book. It evolved four years later into Getting Causes from Powers. A detailed handout exists also.
Although this paper is a full draft, it was put to rest after meeting Rani Anjum and agreeing to work on causation together. An early handout also exists.
Written circa 2006 as a sample essay for a radio programme on metaphysics that was not commissioned
I have little memory of this 2004 paper though I did presented another version in Lund in 2006.
I believe I gave this paper in 2004 in Aix-en-provence but I have little recollection of it