Recent Publications
"Warrant is Unique": Philosophical Studies (2010)
I argue that there is, after all, exactly one warrant condition filling the gap between mere true belief and knowledge.
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"No Pairing Problem" (with J. Rasmussen and L. Van Horn): Philosophical Studies (forthcoming)
Jaegwon Kim has raised a pairing problem for substance dualism. In this paper, we solve the problem.
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Work In Progress
"Composition and Consciousness"
I take issue with a handful of thought experiments in the philosophy of mind. I argue that questions about composition have--to the detriment of those involved--been ignored.
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"Incompatibilism and the Past"
I show how a recent objection to the Consequence Argument applies to a host of other arguments for incompatibilism about free will and determinism. I then introduce and discuss a new argument that is immune to the objection.
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"No Bare Particulars"
Bare particularlism has it that ordinary objects have their properties and something else besides (a "bare particular") as parts. I argue that bare particularism is false.
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"You Needn't Be Simple"
I argue that a recent attempt to show that we are simple (partless) beings fails and show what follows.
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Undergraduate
"Some Unsound Arguments for Incompatibilism"
My graduate school writing sample (2005). In it, I contend that a couple of influential arguments for incompatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism are unsound.
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About Me
I am a student of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
My research is mostly in metaphysics and epistemology. I am interested in quite general questions about what things there are, what they are like, and what can be known of them. But I am most interested in we human beings, and our powers and place in the world. Consequently, I'm writing a dissertation on human nature; in it, I defend the thesis that we are wholly material beings.
