Click on the title of a paper below to get to a .pdf of that paper. Most of these can also be accessed on PhilPapers and Academia.edu.
- “The Growing Block, the Epistemic Objection, and Zombie Parrots,” Disputatio (forthcoming).
- “Five New Arguments for The Dynamic Theory of Time,” Philosophical Perspectives (2022).
- “Meaning in Life and the Nature of Time,” in Iddo Landau (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life (Oxford University Press, 2022). (If the Oxford University Press link doesn’t work, you can also find the paper here.)
- “The Dynamic Theory of Time and Time Travel to the Past,” Disputatio Vol. XII, No. 57 (2020), pp. 137-165. (If the Disputatio link doesn’t work, you can get the PDF here.)
- “Time” (co-authored with Nina Emery and Meghan Sullivan), in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020).
- “Sideways Music,” Analysis 80 (2020), pp. 51-59.
- “The Right Stuff,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (2015), pp. 665-687.
- “Do You Know That You Are Not a Brain In a Vat?” Logos and Episteme V, 2 (2014), pp. 161-181. (If the journal’s link is not working, you can also find the paper here.)
- Review of Caspar Hare’s On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects, in The Philosophical Review 123 (2014), pp. 360-366.
- “A Spatial Approach to Mereology,” in Shieva Kleinschmidt (ed.), Mereology and Location (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 69-90.
- “The Truth About the Past and the Future,” in Fabrice Correia and Andrea Iacona (eds.), Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching Time and the Open Future (Springer, 2013), pp. 127-141.
- “Two Puzzles About Mercy,” Philosophical Quarterly 63 (2013) pp. 269-292.
- “Agent Causation as the Solution to All the Compatibilist’s Problems,” Philosophical Studies 157 (2012), pp. 383-398.
- “A Simple Solution to the Two Envelope Problem,” Logos and Episteme II, 3 (2011), pp, 347-357.
- “Identifying the Problem of Personal Identity,” in Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein (eds.), Time and Identity (MIT Press, 2010), pp. 127-148.
- “Physical Object,” in Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, and Gary S. Rosenkrantz (eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd Edition, (Basil Blackwell, 2009), pp. 486-489.
- “Rossian Minimalism,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 4 (2009), pp. 1-16.
- “Three Problems for Olson’s Account of Personal Identity,” Abstracta Special Issue I (2008), pp. 16-22.
- “Restricted Composition,” in John Hawthorne, Theodore Sider, and Dean Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics (Basil Blackwell, 2008), pp. 341-363.
- “Against Ontological Fundamentalism,” Facta Philosophica 7 (2005), pp. 69-84.
- “Simples, Stuff, and Simple People,” The Monist 87 (2004), pp. 405-428.
- “Soc it to Me? Reply to McDaniel on MaxCon Simples,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (2004), pp. 332-340.
- “Two Arguments from Sider’s Four-Dimensionalism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2004), pp. 665-673.
- “A Defense of Presentism,” in Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 1 (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 47-82. Reprinted in Michael Rea (ed.), Arguing About Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009); and in Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz (eds.), Persistence: Contemporary Readings (MIT Press, 2006).
- “Time,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002, 2008, 2014). (This is an archived version of the original, single-author entry, which was in 2020 updated and co-authored with Nina Emery and Meghan Sullivan.)
- “Critical Study of Robin Le Poidevin (ed.) Questions of Time and Tense,” Nous 35 (2001), pp. 616-629.
- Review of Peter Ludlow’s Semantics, Tense, and Time in The Journal of Philosophy 98 (2001), pp. 325-329.
- “Sorensen’s Argument Against Vague Objects,” Philosophical Studies 97 (2000), pp. 1-9.
- “What Are Physical Objects?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000), pp. 375-395.
- “A Compatibilist Version of the Theory of Agent Causation,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (1999), pp. 257-277.
- “Brutal Composition,” Philosophical Studies 92 (1998), pp. 211-249.
- “Simples,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1998), pp. 213-226.
- “The Paradox of the Question,” Analysis 57 (1997), pp. 95-97. Preprinted in Analyst (the electronic supplement to Analysis) 2 (1996). Portuguese translation, “O Paradoxo da Pergunta,” published in Disputatio 1 (1996), pp. 23-25.
- “On the Argument from Quantum Cosmology Against Theism,” Analysis 55 (1995), pp. 247-251.
- “The Open Past,” Philosophical Studies 79 (1995), pp. 95-105.
- “The 3D/4D Controversy and Non-Present Objects,” Philosophical Papers 23 (1994), pp. 243-249.
- “How Fast Does Time Pass?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993), pp. 829-844. Reprinted in William R. Carter (ed.), The Way Things Are: Basic Readings in Metaphysics (McGraw-Hill, 1998).
- “On Language and the Passage of Time,” Philosophical Studies 66 (1992), pp. 1-26.
- “On Ockham’s Supposition Theory and Karger’s Rule of Inference,” Franciscan Studies, 48 (1988), pp. 40-52.