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An Empirical Argument for PresentismOxford Studies in Metaphysics. forthcoming.
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Subjectivism and the MentalDialectica 70 (3): 311-342. 2016.This paper defends the view that one's own mental states are metaphysically privileged vis-à-vis the mental states of others, even if only subjectively so. This is an instance of a more general view called Subjectivism, according to which reality is only subjectively the way it is. After characterizing Subjectivism in analogy to two relatively familiar views in the metaphysics of modality and time, I compare the Subjectivist View of the Mental with Egocentric Presentism, a version of Subjectivis…Read more
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Realism and the Absence of ValuePhilosophical Review 127 (3): 279-322. 2018.
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What is Bitcoin?Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2021.Many want to know what bitcoin is and how it works. But bitcoin is as complex as it is controversial, and relatively few have the technical background to understand it. In this paper, I offer an accessible on-ramp for understanding bitcoin in the form of a model. My model reveals both what bitcoin is and how it works. More specifically, it reveals that bitcoin is a fictional substance in a massively coauthored story on a network that automates and distributes jobs normally entrusted to centraliz…Read more
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2015
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |