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    The Metaphysics of Opacity
    Philosophers' Imprint 23 (1). 2023.
    This paper examines the logical and metaphysical consequences of denying Leibniz's Law, the principle that if t1= t2, then φ(t1) if and only if φ(t2). Recently, Caie, Goodman, and Lederman (2020) and Bacon and Russell (2019) have proposed sophisticated logical systems permitting violations of Leibniz's Law. We show that their systems conflict with widely held, attractive principles concerning the metaphysics of individuals. Only by adopting a highly revisionary picture, on which there is no fine…Read more
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    Haecceitism without individuals
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
    According to anti-individualism, the basic building blocks of the world are not individuals. The anti-individualist argues that standard, individual-entailing claims–for instance, that Theia is a cat–are mistaken in presupposing that there are individuals, but that such claims correspond to statements in a feature-placing language devoid of these presuppositions. Instead, the world is entirely made up of non-individualistic features–structurally akin to familiar examples such as it's raining or …Read more
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    Antwort auf Gabriel
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 123 (2): 465-474. 2016.
  •  18
    Gibt es den neuen Realismus?
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 122 (1): 126-145. 2015.
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    A Language for Ontological Nihilism
    Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 5 971-996. 2018.
    According to ontological nihilism there are, fundamentally, no individuals. Both natural languages and standard predicate logic, however, appear to be committed to a picture of the world as containing individual objects. This leads to what I call the \emph{expressibility challenge} for ontological nihilism: what language can the ontological nihilist use to express her account of how matters fundamentally stand? One promising suggestion is for the nihilist to use a form of \emph{predicate functo…Read more
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    Versteckte Zahlen
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (3): 412-418. 2016.