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    Symmetric and nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials
    Annals of Combinatorics 3 (2-4): 385-415. 1999.
    The symmetric Macdonald polynomials may be constructed from the nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials. This allows us to develop the theory of the symmetric Macdonald polynomials by first developing the theory of their nonsymmetric counterparts. In taking this approach we are able to obtain new results as well as simpler and more accessible derivations of a number of the known fundamental properties of both kinds of polynomials.
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    A Temporal Comparison Argument for Presentism
    Philosophical Perspectives 36 (1): 182-215. 2022.
    Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
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    Humean laws and explanation
    Philosophical Studies 172 (12): 3145-3165. 2015.
    A common objection to Humeanism about natural laws is that, given Humeanism, laws cannot help explain their instances, since, given the best Humean account of laws, facts about laws are explained by facts about their instances rather than vice versa. After rejecting a recent influential reply to this objection that appeals to the distinction between scientific and metaphysical explanation, I will argue that the objection fails by failing to distinguish between two types of facts, only one of whi…Read more
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    Intrinsicality and Grounding
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (1): 1-19. 2015.
    A number of philosophers have recently claimed that intrinsicality can be analysed in terms of the metaphysical notion of grounding. Since grounding is a hyperintensional notion, accounts of intrinsicality in terms of grounding, unlike most other accounts, promise to be able to discriminate between necessarily coextensive properties that differ in whether they are intrinsic. They therefore promise to be compatible with popular metaphysical theories that posit necessary entities and necessary con…Read more
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    Causation and fact granularity
    Synthese 199 (3-4): 8029-8045. 2021.
    According to the modal theory of facts and states of affairs, two facts or states of affairs are identical iff they are necessarily equivalent. One important argument against the modal theory is the causal argument of John Perry, which can also be applied with equal strength to a number of more moderate-grain theories of facts and states of affairs. I argue that, at least in its original form, the causal argument is unsound. I also argue that, while the argument can be modified so that it avoids…Read more
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    Yablo’s Account of Intrinsicality
    In Robert M. Francescotti (ed.), Companion to Intrinsic Properties, De Gruyter. pp. 199-220. 2014.
    An intrinsic property is roughly a property something has in virtue of how it is, as opposed to how it is related to other things. More carefully, the property of being F is intrinsic iff, necessarily, for any x that is F , x is F in virtue of how it is, as opposed to how it is related to wholly distinct things, or how wholly distinct things are. An extrinsic property, on the other hand, is any property that is not intrinsic. An example of an extrinsic property is the property of being an uncle.…Read more
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    Intrinsicality and the classification of uninstantiable properties
    Philosophical Studies 178 (3): 731-753. 2020.
    It is often held that identity properties like the property of being identical to Paris are intrinsic. It is also often held that, while some logically uninstantiable properties are intrinsic, some logically uninstantiable properties are non-intrinsic. The combination of these views, however, raises a problem, since virtually every existing account of intrinsicality fails to analyse a notion of intrinsicality on which both these views are true. In this paper, I argue that, given the orthodox the…Read more