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Education
Ph.D., Brown University, 2011
B.A., The College of New Jersey, 2003
Biography
Academic Interests
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mind
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Logic
Recent seminar topics
- Consciousness and fundamentality
- Realization and multiple realization
- Phenomenalism, neutral monism, panpsychism
- Language and ontology
Selected Publications
- Physicalism Deconstructed: Levels of Reality and the Mind-Body Problem (Cambridge, 2018; Table of Contents here)
- The Super Justification Argument for Phenomenal Transparency, Inquiry (forthcoming)
- Multiple Realization and Compositional Variation, Synthese (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 (special issue on physicalism) (September 2018)
- How to Read Moore's 'Proof of an External World' (with Conseulo Preti), Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (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)