Upcoming talks

Publications

  1. ‘Deterministic Chance’, Noûs, 45 (2011): 269–99. (published version)
  2. Philosophy of Probability: Contemporary Readings, Routledge (2011).
  3. ‘Chance and Randomness’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010).
  4. ‘Location and Perdurance’, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 5 (2010): 53–94.
  5. ‘Duration in Relativistic Spacetime’, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 5 (2010): 113–8.
  6. ‘Causal Structuralism, Dispositional Actualism, and Counterfactual Conditionals’, in Toby Handfield (ed.), Dispositions and Causes, OUP (2009): 65–99.
  7. ‘Mathematics and Conceptual Analysis’, Synthese, 161 (2008): 67–88. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
  8. ‘Telling Tales’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 107 (2007): 125–47. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.
  9. ‘Pragmatic Causation’, in Huw Price and Richard Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited, OUP (2007): 156–90.
  10. ‘Reply to Stone on Counterpart Theory and Four-Dimensionalism’, Analysis, 67 (2007): 159–62. The definitive version is available atwww.blackwell-synergy.com.
  11. ‘Randomness is Unpredictability’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56 (2005): 749–790. The published version can be found here.
  12. ‘A note on Dolby and Gull on radar time and the twin “paradox”‘, American Journal of Physics, 73 (2005): 976–979. The published version can be found here.
  13. ‘Twenty-One Arguments Against Propensity Analyses of Probability’, Erkenntnis, 60 (2004): 371–416. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

In Progress

  1. ‘The Open Future’ (handout)
  2. ‘Generic Causation’
  3. ‘Another Go at Modal Fictionalism’
  4.  ’Uncertainty in Everettian Branching Time Revisited’
  5. ‘Probability and Randomness‘ (this paper also has an extended original version)
  6. ‘Is the Past a Matter of Chance?’

In Stasis

  1. ‘”Might” Counterfactuals’
  2. ‘Paradox and the Norms of Belief’ (handout)

Reviews

  1. Book note on Helen Steward, A Metaphysics for Freedom, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.
  2. Review of Yuri Balashov, Persistence and Spacetime, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2011.09.24.
  3. Review of D. H. Mellor, Probability: A Philosophical Introduction, Mind, 115 (2006): 773–777.
  4. Review of Tim Maudlin, Truth and Paradox, Philosophical Quarterly, 56 (2006): 455–457.
  5. Book note on John Hawthorne, Knowlege and Lotteries, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83 (2005): 451–452.
  6. ‘A Causal Theory of Chance?’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 35 (2004): 883–890. The original publication is available from the journal website.

Other

  1. ‘Philosophy and Probability’ Exeter College Association Register (2009): 55–58. [Abstract]
  2. Elements of Deductive Logic, textbook used in the EDL first year course at Oxford. [Buy a copy in paperback]
  3. ‘Selection Interviews: Some Issues’
  4. ‘Feminist epistemology’, expository talk to University of Adelaide Philosophy Club, 2013-04-10.