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127Complete Artworks without AuthorsCanadian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.Investigation of a puzzle concerning complete yet authorless artworks.
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244Transparency and the explanatory gapIn G. Rabin (ed.), Grounding and Consciousness, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-21. forthcoming.Grounding-theoretic account of the notion of transparency relevant to the explanatory gap between the mental and physical.
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718Should explanation be a guide to ground?Philosophical Studies 178 (12): 4083-4098. 2021.Grounding and explanation are said to be intimately connected. Some even maintain that grounding just is a form of explanation. But grounding and explanation also seem importantly different—on the face of it, the former is ‘worldy’ or ‘objective’ while the latter isn’t. In this paper, we develop and respond to an argument to the effect that there is no way to fruitfully address this tension that retains orthodox views about grounding and explanation but doesn’t undermine a central piece of metho…Read more
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820Full and partial groundingJournal of the American Philosophical Association 7 (2): 252-271. 2021.Discussion of partial grounds that aren't parts of full grounds; definition of full grounding in terms of partial grounding
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408TruthmakingIn Michael J. Raven (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding, Routledge. pp. 396-407. 2020.Discussion of grounding-theoretic accounts of truthmaking in terms of the theoretical role of “catching cheaters”.
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517Grounding and metametaphysicsIn Ricki Bliss & James Miller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, Routledge. 2020.Discussion of the relevance of grounding to substantiveness, theory-choice, and “location problems” in metaphysics.
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Perceptual contentProtoSociology 22. 2006.Sketch of an account of perceptual content that satisfies conditions concerning accuracy, transparency, and richness.
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550Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness (review)Philosophical Review 118 (2): 269-273. 2009.
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1140Inheritance arguments for fundamentalityIn Ricki Bliss & Graham Priest (eds.), Reality and its Structure: Essays in Fundamentality, Oxford University Press. pp. 182-198. 2018.Discussion of a metaphysical sense of 'inheritance' and cognate notions relevant to fundamentality.
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682Prioritizing platonismPhilosophical Studies 176 (8): 2029-2042. 2019.Discussion of atomistic and monistic theses about abstract reality.
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686Priority monismPhilosophy Compass 12 (11): 1-10. 2017.Argument that priority monism is best understood as being a contingent thesis.
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101Phenomenal AcquaintanceDissertation, UMass Amherst. 2009.Chapter 1 is devoted to taking care of some preliminary issues. I begin by distinguishing those states of awareness in virtue of which we’re acquainted with the phenomenal characters of our experiences from those states of awareness some claim are at the very nature of experience. Then I reconcile the idea that experience is transparent with the claim that we can be acquainted with phenomenal character. In Chapter 2 I set up a dilemma that is the primary focus of the dissertation. In the first …Read more
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579Artwork completion: a response to GoverJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (4): 460-462. 2015.Response to Gover (2015) on Trogdon and Livingston (2015) on artwork completion.
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352The complete workJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 225-233. 2014.Defense of a psychological account of what it is for an artwork to be complete.
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1566Grounding: necessary or contingent?Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94 (4): 465-485. 2013.Argument that full grounds modally entail what they ground.
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552Physicalism and sparse ontologyPhilosophical Studies 143 (2): 147-165. 2009.Discussion of reductive and non-reductive physicalism formulated in a priority monist framework.
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1440Grounding-mechanical explanationPhilosophical Studies 175 (6): 1289-1309. 2018.Characterization of a form of explanation involving grounding on the model of mechanistic causal explanation.
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679Intrinsicality without naturalnessPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2). 2005.Defense of an account of intrinsic properties in terms of (what is now called) grounding rather than naturalness.
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991Intrinsicality for monists (and pluralists)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (3): 555-558. 2010.Response to Skiles (2009) on Trogdon (2009) on intrinsic properties and fundamentality.
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715Metaphysical groundingStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021.General discussion of grounding, including its formal features, relations to other notions, and applications. (Originally published 2014; revised 2021)
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641Placement, grounding, and mental contentIn C. Daly (ed.), Palgrave Handbook on Philosophical Methods, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 481-496. 2015.Grounding-theoretic reformulation of Fodor's theory of content that addresses recalcitrant Quinean concerns.
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91Could There Have Been Nothing? Against Metaphysical Nihilism (review)Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews 1 -. 2011.
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831Monism and intrinsicalityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (1). 2009.Amendment of the Witmer, Butchard, and Trogdon (2005) account of intrinsic properties with the aim of neutrality between competing theories of what is fundamental.
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3341An introduction to groundingIn Miguel Hoeltje, Benjamin Schnieder & Alex Steinberg (eds.), Varieties of Dependence, Philosophia Verlag. pp. 97-122. 2013.General discussion of grounding, including its formal features, relations to other notions, and applications.
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1247Revelation and physicalismSynthese 194 (7): 2345-2366. 2017.Discussion of the challenge that acquaintance with the nature of experience poses to physicalism.
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669The modal status of materialismPhilosophical Studies 145 (3). 2009.Argument that Lewis and others are wrong that physicalism is if true then contingently true.
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