Education
Ph.D., Brown University, 2011
B.A., The College of New Jersey, 2003
Biography
Research and Teaching Interests
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mind
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Logic
Recent Seminar Topics
- Consciousness and fundamentality
- Realization and multiple realization
- Phenomenalism, neutral monism, panpsychism
- Levels of reality
- Relations and monism
- Language and ontology
Books
- Early Analytic Philosophy: An Inclusive Reader With Commentary (with Consuelo Preti) (Bloomsbury, 2023)
- Elementary Symbolic Logic: Concepts, Techniques, and Context (Kendall Hunt, 2021, 2023)
- Physicalism Deconstructed: Levels of Reality and the Mind-Body Problem (Cambridge, 2018; Table of Contents)
Selected Articles
- Are Phenomenal Properties Determinables of Physical Determinates? Erkenntnis (2025)
- Metaphysical Dependence and the Subset Relation Between Powers, The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2025)
- F.H. Bradley and the Metaphysics of Nonreductive Physicalism, The Review of Metaphysics 78 (2024)
- Della Rocca's Relations Regress and Bradley's Relations Regresses, Acta Analytica 39 (2024)
- What's Wrong With Nonreductive Physicalism? The Exclusion Problem Reconsidered, ProtoSociology 39 (issue on Jaegwon Kim) (2023)
- The Super Justification Argument for Phenomenal Transparency, Inquiry 65 (2022)
- Multiple Realization and Compositional Variation, Synthese 197 (2020)
- What's Wrong With Brute Supervenience? A Defense of Horgan on Physicalism and Superdupervenience, Analytic Philosophy 59 (June 2018)
- Truthmaking and the Mysteries of Emergence, in Vintiadis and Mekios, Brute Facts (Oxford, 2018)
- Physicalism, Truthmaking, and Levels of Reality: Prospects and Problems, Topoi 37 (issue on physicalism) (September 2018)
- Russellian Physicalism, Bare Structure, and Swapped Inscrutables, Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (2016)
- How to Read Moore's 'Proof of an External World' (with Conseulo 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)