Publications - PDFs are hyperlinked if possible (check ‘[↧]’s); if not, email me for a copy (which I am usually happy to share)
  1. Simulation & Manipulation: What Skepticism (Or Its Modern Variation) Teaches Us About Free Will - Episteme (forthcoming) - [↧]
  2. Towards a Realist Shifty Semantic Account of Moral Vagueness - Acta Analytica (2025) - [↧]

My personal favorites include: [2] (my “S & M” paper).

And in summary, my research focuses on ‘metaphysics + ·,’ where ‘·’ varies from paper to paper.

There are many ways to classify papers here. Below is one such way.

Works in Progress and/or Under Review - PDFs are not attached for ongoing or future blind review; yet I am ususally happy to share drafts (if ready) upon email request
    Metaphysics I: Causation, causal powers, emergence & mereology - I am developing a new, non-humeanist theory of causation that hangs those topics together
  1. On the Metaontology of Emeregnce
  2. A New Interpretation of Shepherd on Causation
  3. Causation as Composition: An Anti-Humeanist Project
  4. Cause and Vagueness
  5. Extraordinary Persons
  6. Mental Parts
    7. Metaphysics II: “Reality-making” - I am developing a new way to understand metaphysics in general
  7. Realities and Reality-making in Metaphysics
  8. Realistic Coherentism
  9. Social Ontology as Reality-making
    10. Metaphysics III: Weirdly-vibed metaphysics and its metaphilosophy
  10. Guide for Martian Metaphysics
  11. The Crazyist Metaphysics of the Social
    Social philosophy I: Social ontology & social category - I am developing a systematic view of social metaphysics that understands it as a discipline of reality-making
  1. The Normativity of Disability
  2. Collective Responsibility and Individual Reparative Duty
  3. How Disability Disables, and How to Disble Disability
  4. No Work for the Medical/Social Distinction
    5. Social philosophy II: Group agency
  5. Emergence and Group Agency
  6. The Weirdness of Group Minds
    AI
  1. AIdentity as Artificial Identity
  2. What’s Wrong with AI Porn
  3. The Ethics of God-playing

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