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310Heidegger's Metaphysics of Material BeingsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 87 (2): 332-357. 2012.Heidegger distinguishes between things that are present-at-hand and things that are ready-to-hand. I argue that, in Heidegger, this distinction is between two sets of entities rather than between two ways of considering one and the same set of entities. I argue that Heidegger ascribes distinct temporal, essential, and phenomenological properties to these two different kinds of entities.
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271Distance and Discrete SpaceSynthese 155 (1): 157-162. 2007.Given Lewis’s views about recombination and spatial relations, there are possible worlds in which space is discrete and yet the Pythagorean theorem is true – contrary to the so-called Weyl-Tile argument that concluded that the Pythagorean theorem must fail if space is discrete.
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223A Philosophical Model of the Relation between Things in Themselves and AppearancesNoûs 49 (4): 643-664. 2013.I introduce a methodology for doing the history of philosophy called philosophical modeling. I then employ this methodology to give a theory of Kant's distinction between things in themselves and appearances. This theory models Kant's distinction on the distinction between a constituting object and the object it constitutes.
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72The Good, the Right, Life And Death: Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman (edited book)Ashgate. 2005.This is an edited collection containing papers on intrinsic value, consequentialism, the evil of death, among others.
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448No paradox of multi-locationAnalysis 63 (4): 309-311. 2003.This is a defense of endurantism against an alleged paradox.
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396Extended simples and qualitative heterogeneityPhilosophical Quarterly 59 (235): 325-331. 2009.The problem of qualitative heterogeneity is to explain how an extended simple can enjoy qualitative variation across its spatial or temporal axes, given that it lacks both spatial and temporal parts. I discuss how friends of extended simples should address the problem of qualitative heterogeneity. I present a series of arguments designed to show that rather than appealing to fundamental distributional properties one should appeal to tiny and short-lived tropes. Along the way, issues relevant to …Read more
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357Composition as Identity Does Not Entail UniversalismErkenntnis 73 (1): 97-100. 2010.A short paper proving what the title says.
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553Against composition as identityAnalysis 68 (2): 128-133. 2008.I argue that composition as identity is incompatible with the possibility of emergent properties (as characterized in the paper) and so should be rejected.
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Syracuse UniversityProfessor
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University of Notre DameDepartment of PhilosophyWilliam J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Professor of Philosophy
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
| Metaphysics |
| 20th Century Philosophy |