• Morehead State University
    Department Of Philosophy
    Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
The Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
PhD, 2010
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
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    Everettian Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2016.
    Everettian Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the mathematical results of quantum mechanics were interpreted according to what is often referred to as “the standard interpretation” or the “Copenhagen interpretation.” This interpretation is known as the “collapse interpretation" because it supposes that an observer external to a system causes the system, … Continue reading Everettian Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics →
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    Everettian actualism
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 63 24-33. 2018.
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    Off Belay! The Morality of Free-soloing
    with Gina Blunt Gonzalez
    Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 13 (1): 62-77. 2017.
    In this paper, we use qualitative and quantitative research, along with reference to current philosophical literature to consider the question of whether the sport of free-soloing is inherently immoral given the unavoidable extreme risk taken by the climber and imposed upon others not directly participating in the sport. The first thing we look at is what kind of values climbers see in free-soloing and show, through interviews we conducted with soloers and through a review of the literature on t…Read more
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    The Phenomenology of Dance
    Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 10 (2): 200-203. 2016.
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    No lacuna and no vicious regress: A reply to le poidevin
    Acta Analytica 23 (4): 367-372. 2008.
    In his “Space, supervenience and substantivalism”, Le Poidevin proposes a substantivalism in which space is discrete, implying that there are unmediated spatial relations between neighboring primitive points. This proposition is motivated by his concern that relationism suffers from an explanatory lacuna and that substantivalism gives rise to a vicious regress. Le Poidevin implicitly requires that the relationist be committed to the “only x and y ” principle regarding spatial relations. It is no…Read more
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    On Lim on Kim
    Southwest Philosophy Review 27 (2): 19-22. 2011.