RESEARCH
Below is a list of some of my published, unpublished, and presented work.
Metaphysics
- Book: Between Truth and Reality: A Defense of a Correspondence Theory of Truth
- Introduction
- The Correspondence Theory and its Rivals
- Chapter 2: Objections to the Correspondence Theory
- Chapter 3: A Theory of Facts
- Chapter 4: A Theory of Propositions
- Chapter 5: A Theory of Correspondence
- Chapter 6: The Problem of Funny Facts Revisited
- Chapter 7: The Slingshot Argument
- Chapter 8: Liar Paradoxes
- “Presentists May Say Goodbye to A-Properties,” Analysis (forthcoming)
- “What Propositions May Correspond To and How They Do It,” Dissertation (available upon request), defended in April, 2010.
- “From States of Affairs to a Necessary Being,” Philosophical Studies (2010).
- “A New Argument for a Necessary Being,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2011).
- “Propositions Are Not in Your Head, on Paper, or Anywhere Else,” American Philosophical Association (Central Division), February, 2010.
- “What We See in Dreams,” 61st Northwest Philosophy Conference, October, 2009.
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- “No Pairing Problem,” (with L. van Horn and A. Bailey) Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
- “A Cantorian Cost of Type-Identity Physicalism” (previously, “Mind-Body Supervenience’s Cardinal Sin”)
> American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), December, 2007.
> 58th Northwest Philosophy Conference, November, 2006.
> Words, Objects, and Metaphysics Conference at the University of Texas at
Austin, March, 2006.
- "Cosmological Arguments from Contingency,” Philosophy Compass 5.9: 806-812 (2010).
- “From a Necessary Being to God,” International Journal of Philosophy of Religion 66.1: 1-13 (2009).
- “On Creating Worlds without Evil – Given Divine Counterfactual Knowledge,” Religious Studies 40.4: 457-470 (2004).
- “A Scotistic Cosmological Argument”
> 59th Northwest Philosophy Conference, October, 2007.
> Rutgers Philosophy of Religion Conference, January, 2007.