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318Back to the open futurePhilosophical Perspectives 25 (1): 1-26. 2011.Many of us are tempted by the thought that the future is open, whereas the past is not. The future might unfold one way, or it might unfold another; but the past, having occurred, is now settled. In previous work we presented an account of what openness consists in: roughly, that the openness of the future is a matter of it being metaphysically indeterminate how things will turn out to be. We were previously concerned merely with presenting the view and exploring its consequences; we did not att…Read more
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953The open future: bivalence, determinism and ontologyPhilosophical Studies 146 (2): 291-309. 2008.In this paper we aim to disentangle the thesis that the future is open from theses that often get associated or even conflated with it. In particular, we argue that the open future thesis is compatible with both the unrestricted principle of bivalence and determinism with respect to the laws of nature. We also argue that whether or not the future (and indeed the past) is open has no consequences as to the existence of (past and) future ontology.
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230Indeterminacy, identity and counterparts: Evans reconsideredSynthese 168 (1). 2009.In this paper I argue that Gareth Evans’ famous proof of the impossibility of de re indeterminate identity fails on a counterpart-theoretic interpretation of the determinacy operators. I attempt to motivate a counterpart-theoretic reading of the determinacy operators and then show that, understood counterpart-theoretically, Evans’ argument is straightforwardly invalid.
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149Review of David Chalmers, David Manley, Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2007
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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