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88On Phenomenal Functionalism about the Properties of Virtual and Non-virtual ObjectsDisputatio 11 (55): 399-410. 2019.According to phenomenal functionalism, whether some object or event has a given property is determined by the kinds of sensory experiences such objects or events typically cause in normal perceivers in normal viewing conditions. This paper challenges this position and, more specifically, David Chalmers’s use of it in arguing for what he calls virtual realism.
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84Panpsychism and the Limits of Physical ScienceJournal of Consciousness Studies 28 (9-10): 181-193. 2021.
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84Review of Metaphysical Emergence by Jessica Wilson (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2022.
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65The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum PhysicsOxford University Press. 2021."What are the ontological implications of quantum theories, that is, what do they tell us about the fundamental objects that make up our world? How should quantum theories make us reevaluate our classical conceptions of the basic constitution of material objects and ourselves? Is there fundamental quantum nonlocality? This book articulates several rival approaches to answering these questions, ultimately defending the wave function realist approach. It is a way of interpreting quantum theories s…Read more
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27Review of John Heil, The Universe As We Find It (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65 (4): 881-886. 2014.
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7A Physicalist Critique of Russellian MonismIn Torin Andrew Alter & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Consciousness in the Physical World: Perspectives on Russellian Monism, Oxford University Press. pp. 346-369. 2015.
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7ReductionismInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.Reductionists are those who take one theory or phenomenon to be reducible to some other theory or phenomenon. For example, a reductionist regarding mathematics might take any given mathematical theory to be reducible to logic or set theory. Or, a reductionist about biological entities like cells might take such entities to be reducible to collections of physico-chemical entities like atoms and molecules. The type of reductionism that is currently of most interest in metaphysics and philosophy of…Read more
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4Are There Fundamental Intrinsic Properties?In Allan Hazlett (ed.), New Waves in Metaphysics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 219--39. 2010.
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4Ontological Reduction and the Wave Function OntologyIn Alyssa Ney & David Z. Albert (eds.), The Wave Function: Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press. pp. 168-183. 2013.
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Separability, locality, and higher dimensions in quantum mechanicsIn Shamik Dasgupta, Brad Weslake & Ravit Dotan (eds.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science, Routledge. 2020.
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