Papers

Published Papers:

(Links are to journal websites; please email me directly if you do not have journal access.)

"Persisting Despite the Relativistic Odds," (forthcoming) Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

"Time and Special Relativity," (forthcoming) in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time, ed., Nina Emery, Routledge.

"On the Roles of Function and Selection in Evolving Systems" with Michael Wong, et. al. (2023) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Humean Undermining," with Elizabeth Miller (2023) in Humeanism, ed., Hicks, Jaag, Loew, Oxford University Press.

"Isolation, Not Locality," with Michael Townsen Hicks (2021) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 103(3): 607-619.

Mentaculus Laws and Metaphysics,” (2019) Principia, 23(3): 387-399.

Powerful Properties, Powerless Laws” (2017) in Causal Powers,  ed., Jonathan Jacobs (pp. 38-53), Oxford University Press.

Fission May Kill You (But Not for the Reasons You Thought)” (2016) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 93(3): 565–582. 

The Universe Had One Chance” (2016) Philosophy of Science, 83(2): 248-264. 

Fundamental Properties and the Laws of Nature” (2015) Philosophy Compass, 10(5): 334–344. 

Do Counterfactuals Ground the Laws? A Critique of Lange” (2012) Philosophy of Science, 79(3): 333-344. 

Review:

"Review of Laws of Nature, by Ott and Patton," (2018) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Stuff I'm working on now:

Arguments against pragmatic Humean accounts of laws

Metaphysical options for Humean laws - sentences, propositions, and states of affairs (with Isaac Wilhelm)

Law of increasing complexity

Macrostates in the Mentaculus

Potency best systems and the generation of new power

How potency best systems can avoid explanatory circularity and accommodate usefulness

Flowing time without a shared present moment