Education
Ph.D., Brown University, 2011
B.A., The College of New Jersey, 2003
Biography
Philpapers page
http://philpapers.org/profile/7231
Academic Interests
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
History of Analytic Philosophy
Recent seminar topics
- Phenomenalism, neutral monism, panpsychism
- Dependence and relations
- Language and reality
- Causation and properties
- Materialism
Selected Publications
- Physicalism, Truthmaking, and Levels of Reality: Problems and Prospects, Topoi (special issue on the character of physicalism) (forthcoming)
- The Combination Problem: Subjects and Unity, Erkenntnis (forthcoming)
- How to Read Moore's "Proof of an External World," (with C. Preti), Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 4 (2015)
- Against Disanalogy-Style Responses to the Exclusion Problem, Philosophia 43 (June 2015)
- Supervenience Physicalism, Emergentism, and the Polluted Supervenience Base, Erkenntnis 79 (April 2014)
- On Two Arguments for Subset Inheritance, Philosophical Studies 163 (March 2013)
- Subset Realization, Parthood, and Causal Overdetermination, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (September 2011)
- Guidelines for Theorizing About Realization, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 48 (December 2010)
- Does Functional Reduction Need Bridge Laws? A Response to Marras, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60 (September 2009)