Fundamentality
On the Prospects of an Effective Metaphysics. Forthcoming in The Structure of Reality and the Reality of Structure, ed. F.A. Muller.
No grounds for effective theories. Forthcoming in Levels of Explanation, eds. Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson, OUP.
Fundamentality and Grounding (Cambridge Elements series).
A curse on both houses: naturalistic versus a priori metaphysics and the problem of progress. Res Philosophica, 97(1):1-29, Jan 2020.
The 'philosopher's stone': physics, metaphysics, and the value of a final theory, forthcoming in Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, eds. Nick Huggett, Baptiste Le Bihan, and Christian Wüthrich, Oxford University Press. Please email me for a copy.
Fundamentality. In the Routledge Handbook of Emergence, eds. Sophie Gibbs, Robin Hendry, and Tom Lancaster (2019).
Against Brute Fundamentalism. dialectica Vol. 71, No. 2 (2017). Preprint is here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13358/
Relativities of Fundamentality. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics (2017), special issue on dualities. Please email me if you do not have access to the journal.
On the Fundamentality of Symmetries. Philosophy of Science, 2012 conference proceedings volume.
Arguing Against Fundamentality. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics (2011).
Structuralism
Structuralism as a Stance. Philosophy of Physics (2024).
Structuralism in the Idiom of Determination. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx061.
Ontic Structural Realism. In Philosophy Compass (2017). Please email me if you do not have access to the journal.
Looking forward, not back: supporting structuralism in the present. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Science (2016), special issue on 'Testing Structural Realism', ed. Chris Haufe. A close-to-final draft is here.
Priority and Particle Physics: Ontic Structural Realism as a Fundamentality Thesis. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2014), doi:10.1093/bjps/axt017.
Structure and Logic, co-written with Simon Saunders. In Physical Theories and Interpretation, ed. Larry Sklar (2014). Our take on structural realism. Please email me for a copy.
Methodology
Science-Guided Metaphysics (2019). Penultimate version of a paper forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics., eds. Ricki Bliss and James Miller. Please only cite the final version.
Thinking Outside the Toolbox (2012) (co-authored with Steven French). European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 8 (2) (2012).
Rethinking Outside the Toolbox (2016) (co-authored with Steven French). In The Metaphysics of Contemporary Physics, (Poznan Studies in Philosophy of Science and the Humanities vol 104), eds. Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich.
Miscellaneous Metaphysics
In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to Humeanism about Fundamental Laws (2014).
In New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, eds. M. C. Galavotti, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, W. Gonzalez, D. Dieks and T. Uebel (Springer), 2014.
Bound States and the Special Composition Question (2016) (co-written with F.A. Muller.) In Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science - EPSA15 Düsseldorf, eds. Michela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn. and Gerhard Schurz.
Reviews and Commentaries
Review of Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology by Anjan Chakravartty, BJPS Review of Books.
Being realistic: the challenge of theory change meets the metaphysics of scientific realism. In a special issue of Spontaneous Generations, edited by Curtis Forbes, on the state of the contemporary realism debate. (I highly recommend the volume as a whole!)
Chance Regained: Review of After Physics by David Z. Albert (2016). Metascience, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11016-015-0048-3
Review of Metaphysics and Science, eds. Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby (2016). BJPS 67 (2):643-650: https://academic.oup.com/bjps/article-abstract/67/2/643/2473147
Review of Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics by Colin McGinn (2013). Mind, July 2013: https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/122/487/813/1009459?redirectedFrom=fulltext
How (and How Not) to Object to Objects (2012). Review of Structures, Objects and Causality: Proceedings of the Banff Workshop on Structural Realism, eds. Elaine Landry and Dean Rickles, Metascience, 2012.
Thesis
For what it's worth, my PhD thesis from 2012 is available here.
On the Prospects of an Effective Metaphysics. Forthcoming in The Structure of Reality and the Reality of Structure, ed. F.A. Muller.
No grounds for effective theories. Forthcoming in Levels of Explanation, eds. Katie Robertson and Alastair Wilson, OUP.
Fundamentality and Grounding (Cambridge Elements series).
A curse on both houses: naturalistic versus a priori metaphysics and the problem of progress. Res Philosophica, 97(1):1-29, Jan 2020.
The 'philosopher's stone': physics, metaphysics, and the value of a final theory, forthcoming in Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, eds. Nick Huggett, Baptiste Le Bihan, and Christian Wüthrich, Oxford University Press. Please email me for a copy.
Fundamentality. In the Routledge Handbook of Emergence, eds. Sophie Gibbs, Robin Hendry, and Tom Lancaster (2019).
Against Brute Fundamentalism. dialectica Vol. 71, No. 2 (2017). Preprint is here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13358/
Relativities of Fundamentality. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics (2017), special issue on dualities. Please email me if you do not have access to the journal.
On the Fundamentality of Symmetries. Philosophy of Science, 2012 conference proceedings volume.
Arguing Against Fundamentality. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics (2011).
Structuralism
Structuralism as a Stance. Philosophy of Physics (2024).
Structuralism in the Idiom of Determination. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx061.
Ontic Structural Realism. In Philosophy Compass (2017). Please email me if you do not have access to the journal.
Looking forward, not back: supporting structuralism in the present. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Science (2016), special issue on 'Testing Structural Realism', ed. Chris Haufe. A close-to-final draft is here.
Priority and Particle Physics: Ontic Structural Realism as a Fundamentality Thesis. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2014), doi:10.1093/bjps/axt017.
Structure and Logic, co-written with Simon Saunders. In Physical Theories and Interpretation, ed. Larry Sklar (2014). Our take on structural realism. Please email me for a copy.
Methodology
Science-Guided Metaphysics (2019). Penultimate version of a paper forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics., eds. Ricki Bliss and James Miller. Please only cite the final version.
Thinking Outside the Toolbox (2012) (co-authored with Steven French). European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 8 (2) (2012).
Rethinking Outside the Toolbox (2016) (co-authored with Steven French). In The Metaphysics of Contemporary Physics, (Poznan Studies in Philosophy of Science and the Humanities vol 104), eds. Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich.
Miscellaneous Metaphysics
In No Categorical Terms: A Sketch for an Alternative Route to Humeanism about Fundamental Laws (2014).
In New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, eds. M. C. Galavotti, S. Hartmann, M. Weber, W. Gonzalez, D. Dieks and T. Uebel (Springer), 2014.
Bound States and the Special Composition Question (2016) (co-written with F.A. Muller.) In Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science - EPSA15 Düsseldorf, eds. Michela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn. and Gerhard Schurz.
Reviews and Commentaries
Review of Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology by Anjan Chakravartty, BJPS Review of Books.
Being realistic: the challenge of theory change meets the metaphysics of scientific realism. In a special issue of Spontaneous Generations, edited by Curtis Forbes, on the state of the contemporary realism debate. (I highly recommend the volume as a whole!)
Chance Regained: Review of After Physics by David Z. Albert (2016). Metascience, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11016-015-0048-3
Review of Metaphysics and Science, eds. Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby (2016). BJPS 67 (2):643-650: https://academic.oup.com/bjps/article-abstract/67/2/643/2473147
Review of Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics by Colin McGinn (2013). Mind, July 2013: https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/122/487/813/1009459?redirectedFrom=fulltext
How (and How Not) to Object to Objects (2012). Review of Structures, Objects and Causality: Proceedings of the Banff Workshop on Structural Realism, eds. Elaine Landry and Dean Rickles, Metascience, 2012.
Thesis
For what it's worth, my PhD thesis from 2012 is available here.
