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    The Essence of Space-Time
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988. 1988.
    I argue that Norton & Earman's hole argument, despite its historical association with General Relativity, turns upon very general features of any linguistic system that can represent substances by names. After exploring various means by which mathematical objects can be interpreted as representing physical possibilities, I suggest that a form of essentialism can solve the hole dilemma without abandoning either determinism or substantivalism. Finally, I identify the basic tenets of such an essent…Read more
    Physics of TimeThe Hole Argument
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    Computation and Consciousness
    Journal of Philosophy 86 (8): 407. 1989.
    ComputationalismArtificial ConsciousnessPhilosophy of Consciousness
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    Reducing revenge to discomfort
    In J. C. Beall (ed.), , Oxford University Press. 2009.
    ParadoxesLiar Paradox
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    The message of the quantum?
    with Martin Daumer, Detlef Duerr, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghi
    We criticize speculations to the effect that quantum mechanics is fundamentally about information. We do this by pointing out how unfounded such speculations in fact are. Our analysis focuses on the dubious claims of this kind recently made by Anton Zeilinger.
    Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsQuantum InformationDigital Physics