•  58
    On the Intrinsic Value of Everything (review)
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (3): 353-356. 2014.
  •  1
    The Asymmetry
    In Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich & Ketan Ramakrishnan (eds.), Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit, Oxford University Press. 2022.
  •  1
    Person-affecting utilitarianism
    In Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell & Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2022.
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    X—Coincidence and Supervenience
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 121 (3): 249-273. 2021.
    Pluralists argue for the distinctness of coinciding objects on the grounds that they have different properties. The grounding problem is the problem of explaining how the supposed difference in properties can arise in the first place. This paper considers this problem as an instance of a more general phenomenon, namely, the problem of dealing with underdetermination in asymmetrical systems admitting of non-trivial automorphisms. It argues in favour of primitivism by developing an account of stoc…Read more
  • Kant's theory of the highest good
    In Joachim Aufderheide & Ralf M. Bader (eds.), The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
  •  55
    Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality by Uygar Abaci
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2): 334-335. 2021.
    Uygar Abaci's Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality starts with a helpful and illuminating historical contextualization of Kant's theory of modality. It sets out the ontotheological debates that form the backdrop of Kant's pre-Critical modal theorizing. Abaci covers the proofs of the existence of God by Anselm and Descartes, as well as Leibniz and Wolff. The first two start from the idea of God as the ens perfectissimum and then try to establish the existence of God by arguing that existence i…Read more
  •  163
    The fundamental and the brute
    Philosophical Studies 178 (4): 1121-1142. 2020.
    This paper distinguishes bruteness from fundamentality by developing a theory of stochastic grounding that makes room for non-fundamental bruteness. Stochastic grounding relations, which only underwrite incomplete explanations, arise when the fundamental level underdetermines derivative levels. The framework is applied to fission cases, showing how one can break symmetries and mitigate bruteness whilst avoiding arbitrariness and hypersensitivity.
  •  59
    The transcendental structure of the world
    Dissertation, St. Andrews. 2010.
    This dissertation provides a systematic account of the metaphysics of transcendental idealism. According to the proposed theory, appearances are understood as intentional objects, while phenomena are considered as logical constructs that are grounded in noumena, whereby the grounding relation can be modelled by means of a coordinated multiple-domain supervenience relation. This framework is employed to provide a vindication of metaphysics, by giving dual-level explanations that explain how the w…Read more
  •  81
    Real predicates and existential judgements
    European Journal of Philosophy 26 (3): 1153-1158. 2018.
  •  124
    Stochastic Dominance and Opaque Sweetening
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (3): 498-507. 2018.
    ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the problem of opaque sweetening and argues that one should use stochastic dominance in comparing lotteries even when dealing with incomplete orderings that allow for non-comparable outcomes.
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    Mark Jago: The Impossible: An Essay on Hyperintensionality (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 112 (11): 627-630. 2015.
  •  21
    The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 2015.
    The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant and show that, even though there are important dif…Read more
  •  127
    The Cambridge companion to Nozick's Anarchy, state, and utopia (edited book)
    with John Meadowcroft
    Cambridge University Press. 2011.
    Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse Nozick's ideas from a variety of perspectives and ex…Read more
  •  413
    Supervenience and infinitary property-forming operations
    Philosophical Studies 160 (3): 415-423. 2012.
    This paper provides an account of the closure conditions that apply to sets of subvening and supervening properties, showing that the criterion that determines under which property-forming operations a particular family of properties is closed is applicable both to the finitary and to the infinitary case. In particular, it will be established that, contra Glanzberg, infinitary operations do not give rise to any additional difficulties beyond those that arise in the finitary case.
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    Contingent identity and counterpart theory
    Philosophical Perspectives 30 (1): 7-20. 2016.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Nozick (edited book)
    with John Meadowcroft
    Cambridge University Press. 2011.
  •  592
    This paper develops co-ordinated multiple-domain supervenience relations to model determination and dependence relations between complex entities and their constituents by appealing to R-related pairs and by making use of associated isomorphisms. Supervenience relations are devised for order-sensitive and repetition-sensitive mereologies, for mereological systems that make room for many-many composition relations, as well as for hierarchical mereologies that incorporate compositional and hylomor…Read more
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    This paper analyses Nozick's possible-worlds model of utopia. It identifies and examines three arguments in favour of the minimal state: (1) the minimal state is the real-world analogue of the possible-worlds model and can hence be considered to be inspiring; (2) the minimal state is the common ground of all possible utopian conceptions and can hence be universally endorsed; and (3) the minimal state is the best or at least a very good means for approximating or achieving utopia. While constitut…Read more
  •  653
    Self-knowledge in § 7 of the Transcendental Aesthetic
    In Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 531-540. 2013.
    Kant's claim that time is a subjective form of intuition was first proposed in his Inaugural Dissertation. This view was immediately criticised by Schultz, Lambert and Mendelssohn. Their criticisms are based on the claim that representations change which implies that change is real. From the reality of change they then argue to the reality of time, which undermines its supposed status as a subjective form of intuition that only applies to appearances. Kant took these criticisms very seriously an…Read more
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    Kant and the Categories of Freedom
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (4): 799-820. 2009.
    This paper provides an account of Kant's categories of freedom, explaining how they fit together and what role they are supposed to play. My interpretation places particular emphasis on the structural features that the table of the categories of freedom shares with the table of judgements and the table of categories laid out by Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason. In this way we can identify two interpretative constraints, namely (i) that the categories falling under each heading must form a syn…Read more
  •  958
    The non-transitivity of the contingent and occasional identity relations
    Philosophical Studies 157 (1): 141-152. 2012.
    This paper establishes that the occasional identity relation and the contingent identity relation are both non-transitive and as such are not properly classified as identity relations. This is achieved by appealing to cases where multiple fissions and fusions occur simultaneously. These cases show that the contingent and occasional identity relations do not even satisfy the time-indexed and world-indexed versions of the transitivity requirement and hence are non-transitive relations
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    The Role of Kant’s Refutation of Idealism
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 94 (1): 53-73. 2012.
    This paper assesses the role of the Refutation of Idealism within the Critique of Pure Reason, as well as its relation to the treatment of idealism in the First Edition and to transcendental idealism more generally. It is argued that the Refutation is consistent with the Fourth Paralogism and that it can be considered as an extension of the Transcendental Deduction. While the Deduction, considered on its own, constitutes a 'regressive argument', the Refutation allows us to turn the Transcendenta…Read more