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46Vacillating time: a metaphysics for time travel and GeachianismSynthese 199 (3-4): 7159-7180. 2021.‘Past vacillators’ believe that what was once the case may change over time. This has obvious applications to the possibility of changing the past via time travel. ‘Future vacillators’ believe that some things will happen and yet, later, will not. Further to issues in time travel, future vacillation has applications when it comes to ‘Geachian’ views about the open future. This paper argues that if you deny that the ‘earlier than’ and ‘later than’ relations are converses of one another then you c…Read more
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41Fission theories of Original GuiltInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 92 (1): 15-30. 2022.One reading of the Doctrine of Original Sin has it that we are guilty of a sin committed by Adam, thousands of years ago. Fission theorists account for this by saying that Adam fissioned after he sinned and that each of us is one of his ‘fission successors’. This paper recaps the current discussion in the literature about this theory, arguing that the proposed version does not work for reasons already raised by Rea and Hudson. I then introduce a new version of fission theory that avoids the Rea-…Read more
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33Multiple studies and weak evidential defeatTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (5): 353-366. 2017.When a study shows statistically significant correlation between an exposure and an outcome, the credence of a real connection between the two increases. Should that credence remain the same when it is discovered that further independent studies between the exposure and other independent outcomes were conducted? Matthew Kotzen argues that it should remain the same, even if the results of those further studies are discovered. However, we argue that it can differ dependent upon the results of the …Read more
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31The Wave Theory of Time: A Comparison to Competing Tensed TheoriesJournal of the American Philosophical Association 9 (1): 172-192. 2023.This paper introduces a new theory in temporal ontology, ‘wave theory’, and argues for its attractions over and above existing tensed theories of time.
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27The Close Possibility of Time TravelPhilosophies 8 (6): 118. 2023.This article discusses the possibility of some outlandish tropes from time travel fiction, such as people reversing in age as they time travel or the universe being destroyed because a time traveler kills their ancestor. First, I discuss what type of possibility we might have in mind, detailing ‘close possibility’ as one such candidate. Secondly, I argue that—with only little exception—these more outlandish tropes fail to be closely possible. Thirdly, I discuss whether these outlandish tropes ma…Read more
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27What Truth Is by Mark Jago (review)Philosophical Review 129 (4): 661-664. 2020.Book review of 'What is Truth' by Mark Jago
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26In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: reply to Cumpa and DeclosPhilosophia 50 (4): 1707-1719. 2022.Mereological nominalism is the thesis that properties are identical to mereological fusions of their instances. Cumpa and Declos have raised two problems for the view. This paper is a reply to both problems.
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25Celebrities discuss philosophy episode 4: A transcriptThink 21 (61): 57-72. 2022.If a lump of clay is shaped into a statue, is there one thing or are there two? That is: are the lump and the statue two distinct things? This dialogue introduces some reasons to think they are two different things and then discusses the issues involved.
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23Would God Really Send Me to Hell for Stealing a Wispa Bar?Sophia 63 (1): 85-97. 2024.This paper discusses the problem of Hell, defending the Aquinas-Anselm-Edwards response that any immoral act deserves eternal punishment because it offends against God. I argue that the response is more defensible than one might at first think, but nevertheless faces a serious objection. If we differentiate two different problems of Hell—the logical problem and the evidential problem—we see that, in light of this objection, the Aquinas-Anselm-Edwards response only solves the logical problem of H…Read more
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14Endurantism and timeless worldsAnalysis 67 (2): 140-147. 2007.A discussion of Ted Sider's argument for perdurantism on the grounds of the possibility of timeless worlds.
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Location and propertiesIn A. R. J. Fisher & Anna-Sofia Maurin (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Properties, Routledge. 2024.
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