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20Stephen Mumford , Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 35 (2): 94-96. 2015.
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93The persistent time traveller: contemporary issues in the metaphysics of time and persistenceDissertation, Monash University. 2014.The main theme of this thesis is time travel; time travel cases—both from relativistic physics and science fiction—provide or highlight deep problems for certain positions in contemporary debates about the metaphysical nature of time and of how material objects persist through time. This thesis explores the implications of these discussions; more specifically, I draw attention to some of the interesting things we can learn about presentism and endurantism from discussions of time travel cases th…Read more
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87Persistence, Temporal Extension, and TransdurantismMetaphysica 20 (1): 83-102. 2019.I explicate and defend a non-standard theory of persistence, which I calltransdurantism. In short, transdurantism is the view is that objects persist by being temporally extended simples. Transdurantism is sometime misrepresented as a version of endurantism. Other times, transdurantism is misrepresented as a version of perdurantism. But I argue transdurantism must be disambiguated from perdurantism and endurantism—when endurantism, perdurantism, and transdurantism are properly construed, transdu…Read more
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680Occupy Wall: A Mereological Puzzle and the Burdens of EndurantismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (1): 91-101. 2014.Endurantists have recently faced a mereological puzzle in various forms. Here I argue that, instead of presenting a genuine worry, the puzzle actually reveals a common misunderstanding about the endurantist ontology. Furthermore, through this discussion of the alleged problem and the misunderstanding which motivates it, I reveal metaphysical commitments the endurantist has that may not be widely recognized. For instance, she is committed to interesting and perhaps controversial views about shape…Read more
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784Endurantism and ParadoxPhilosophia 41 (4): 1173-1179. 2013.Mereological challenges have recently been raised against the endurantist. For instance, Barker and Dowe (2003) have argued that eternalist endurantism entails (1) persisting objects are both 3D and 4D, and that (2) the lives of persisting objects last longer than they actually do. They also argue that presentist endurantism also entails, albeit in a tensed way, that (3) the lives of persisting objects last longer than they actually do. While they’ve further argued (2005) that the objections rai…Read more
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905Back to the Present: Defending Presentist Time TravelDisputatio 4 (33). 2012.Here I defend the compatibility of presentism and time travel against a few objections. Keller and Nelson argue that, if presentism is at all plausible, presentism and time travel are as compatible as eternalism and time travel. But Miller and Sider are not convinced. I reply that for their concerns to have merit, Miller and Sider must assume presentists are committed to positions they need not be; I explain why presentists are not so committed and, in the process, defend Keller and Nelson’s pos…Read more
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74Lewisian Time Travel in a Relativistic SettingMetaphysica 15 (2): 329-345. 2014.I argue that David Lewis’s philosophically dominant conception of time travel cannot straightforwardly handle what we might call cases of relativistic time travel—that is, the sort of time travel which could only plausibly occur in a relativistic setting. I evaluate whether or not the Lewisian account can be successfully adapted such that it would able to analyse potential cases of relativistic time travel satisfactorily while still being employable in the analysis of those cases that make no me…Read more
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554Just War and Non-Combatants in the Private Military IndustryJournal of Military Ethics 14 (2): 146-161. 2015.I argue that, according to Just War Theory, those who work as administrative personnel in the private military industry can be permissibly harmed while at work by enemy combatants. That is, for better or worse, a Just War theorist should consider all those who work as administrative personnel in the private military industry either: (i) individuals who may be permissibly restrained with lethal force while at work, or (ii) individuals who may be harmed by permissible attacks against their workpla…Read more
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36Presentism & PassageMetaphysica 23 (2): 369-384. 2022.According to the presentist, only the present moment exists and, as time passes, what’s present changes. However some argue that, if only one moment exists, the presentist cannot explain the passage of time. While the presentist historically appeals to surrogates—proxies which exist in the present but play the role of non-existent past times—to evade this sort of worry, the appeal to surrogates has come under renewed attack from Lisa Leininger. But hope is not lost for the presentist. I argue th…Read more
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24A Problem with the Traveller’s DilemmaPhilosophical Investigations 45 (2): 146-160. 2021.Philosophical Investigations, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 146-160, April 2022.
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33Christ the Tragedy of God: A Theological Exploration of Tragedy. By KevinTaylor. Pp. x, 155, London: Routledge, 2019, $113.50 (review)Heythrop Journal 61 (4): 717-718. 2020.
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14Just War and Administrative Personnel in the Private Military IndustryJournal of Military Ethics 14 (2): 146-161. 2015.ABSTRACTI argue that, according to just war theory, those who work as administrative personnel in the private military industry can be permissibly harmed while at work by enemy combatants. That is, for better or worse, a just war theorist should consider all those who work as administrative personnel in the private military industry as either: individuals who may be permissibly restrained with lethal force while at work; or individuals who may be harmed by permissible attacks against their workp…Read more
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3Kant on the Beautiful: The Interest in DisinterestednessColloquy 16 198-209. 2008.In the Critique of the Power of Judgment, Immanuel Kant proposes a puzzling account of the experience of the beautiful: that aesthetic judgments are both subjective and speak with a universal voice. 1 These properties the subjective and the universal seem mutually exclusive but Kant maintains that they are compatible if we explain aesthetic judgment in terms of the minds a priori structure, as explicated in his earlier Critique of Pure Reason. Kant advances two major claims towards arguing …Read more
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