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1The projectIn Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--35. 2005.
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10Inspiratory threshold loading negatively impacts attentional performanceFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.RationaleThere are growing concerns over the occurrence of adverse physiologic events occurring in pilots during operation of United States Air Force and Navy high-performance aircraft. We hypothesize that a heightened inspiratory work of breathing experienced by jet pilots by virtue of the on-board life support system may constitute a “distraction stimulus” consequent to an increased sensation of respiratory muscle effort. As such, the purpose of this study was to determine whether increasing i…Read more
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2621An extended critical investigation of Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN). I wrote this a couple of years ago as a way of thinking through the argument, but now lack the ambition to revise it into a paper. (It's too long to be a paper, too short and too narrowly focused on one person's argument to be a book.) Rather than let it age in private, I'm sharing it publicly for anyone interested in Plantinga's argument.
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2The Nature of Fundamental PropertiesDissertation, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick. 2004.Are fundamental properties dispositional, like fragility , or categorical, like triangularity? Much hangs on this question, including the modal status of the laws of nature and the relation between conceivability and possibility. I first map the contours of the issue, exploring the space of possible positions and outlining the common assumptions. Next I evaluate the existing arguments, none of which I find ultimately persuasive. Finally, I introduce a novel position, macro-Humeanism, which rende…Read more
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50Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum, Getting Causes from Powers, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 272 pp., GBP 36 , ISBN 978-0-19-969561-4 (review)Dialectica 68 (4): 614-619. 2014.
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80Review of Marmodoro, Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and Their Manifestations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2012.
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2245Skeptical SuccessOxford Studies in Epistemology 3 35-62. 2010.The following is not a successful skeptical scenario: you think you know you have hands, but maybe you don't! Why is that a failure, when it's far more likely than, say, the evil genius hypothesis? That's the question.<br><br>This is an earlier draft.
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131Review of Rea, Michael, World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (7). 2003.
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365What is a disposition?Synthese 144 (3): 321-41. 2005.Attempts to capture the distinction between categorical and dispositional states in terms of more primitive modal notions – subjunctive conditionals, causal roles, or combinatorial principles – are bound to fail. Such failure is ensured by a deep symmetry in the ways dispositional and categorical states alike carry modal import. But the categorical/dispositional distinction should not be abandoned; it underpins important metaphysical disputes. Rather, it should be taken as a primitive, after whi…Read more
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108Review of Groff and Greco, Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: the New Aristotelianism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2013.
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1946Goodbye, Humean SupervenienceOxford Studies in Metaphysics 7 129-153. 2012.Reductionists about dispositions must either say the natural properties are all dispositional or individuate properties hyperintensionally. Lewis stands in as an example of the sort of combination I think is incoherent: properties individuated by modal profile + categoricalism.
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