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Building and Surveying: Relative Fundamentality in Karen Bennett’s Making Things UpAnalysis 79 (2): 303-314. 2019.
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Laws of Nature, Explanation, and Semantic CircularityBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 2017.Humeans and anti-Humeans agree that laws of nature should explain scientifically particular matters of fact. One objection to Humean accounts of laws contends that Humean laws cannot explain particular matters of fact because their explanations are harmfully circular. This article distinguishes between metaphysical and semantic characterizations of the circularity and argues for a new semantic version of the circularity objection. The new formulation suggests that Humean explanations are harmful…Read more
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The Metaphysics of Identity: Is Identity Fundamental?Philosophy Compass 12 (1): 1-13. 2017.
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Explaining identity and distinctnessPhilosophical Studies 177 (7): 2073-2096. 2020.This paper offers a metaphysical explanation of the identity and distinctness of concrete objects. It is tempting to try to distinguish concrete objects on the basis of their possessing different qualitative features, where qualitative features are ones that do not involve identity. Yet, this criterion for object identity faces counterexamples: distinct objects can share all of their qualitative features. This paper suggests that in order to distinguish concrete objects we need to look not only …Read more
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