• "Three Ontological Options for the Laws of the Best System" with Isaac Wilhelm (forthcoming)

Philosophers' Imprint.

• "Selective funnelling and state-space expansion: a conceptual framework for novelty generation and origin events" with Michael Wong et al. (forthcoming)

Interface Focus.

• "Laws of Nature in a Timeless, Holographic Universe" with Thomas Hertog (forthcoming) 

Interface Focus.

• "A New Metaphysics: Relativity, Time, and Causation" (forthcoming) in Astronomy and Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, ed., Stephen Dick.

• "Persisting Despite the Relativistic Odds," (forthcoming) 

Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

• "How (not) to be a Pragmatic Humean," (2025) 

Synthese, 205:168.

• "Time and Special Relativity," (2025) in Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Time, ed., Nina Emery, 

Routledge. 

• "Reply to Root-Bernstein: Increasing complexity allows for the pervasiveness of low-complexity entities and is not anthropocentric," with Michael Wong, et al. (2024) 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• "On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems," with Michael Wong, et al. (2023) 

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.

• “Similarity and Enjoyment Predict Continuation for Women in Philosophy” (2017) 

Analysis, 77(3): 525-541.

• “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

Characterizing complexity

Law of increasing complexity 

Complexity and Temporal Asymmetries

Macrostates in the Mentaculus

Potency best systems and the generation of new powers

Flowing time without a shared present moment (solipsist presentist view of time)