Books

Key Concepts in Metaphysics, Routledge, forthcoming (co-authored with Helen Beebee and Philip Goff)


An Introduction to Ontology, Polity Press, under contract to be completed Spring 2012

Articles

Talking about something (but really talking about nothing), Analysis Reviews (forthcoming).

Endurantism and Perdurantism, Continuum Companion to Metaphysics (forthcoming).

An Unwelcome Consequence of the Multiverse Thesis, Synthese 184 (2012): 375-86.

Undermining Motivations for Universalism, Noûs 45 (2011): 696-713.

Universalism and Classes, dialectica 65 (2011): 451-72.

Sider, Hawley, Sider and the Vagueness Argument, Philosophical Studies 154 (2011): 241-50.

Temporal Parts and Time Travel, Erkenntnis 74 (2011): 225-40.

Mereological Explanation and Time Travel, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010): 333-45.

The Metaphysics of Groups, Philosophical Studies 149 (2010): 251-67.

Composition, Persistence and Identity, in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics ed. Le Poidevin, Simons, McGonigal and Cameron (2009): 296-309.

Universalism, Vagueness and Supersubstantivalism Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009): 35-42.

A Mereological Challenge to Endurantism (with Jon Robson) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 633-40

Endurantism and Timeless Worlds (with Joseph Melia) Analysis 67 (2007): 140-7 [the link is to the publisher's website]

Works In Progress

I have the following works in progress:

The Location of Properties

Mereological Nominalism Renewed

The Metaphysics of Musical Works

Unpublished Works

This section is for those papers that, for whatever reason (rejected replies etc.), are unlikely to see the light of day in their current form.

Heterodox truthmaking theory can be defended by cost/benefit analysis

Debunking a Mereological Myth (in abeyance until I figure out what to do with it)

Cultural Prejudice and the Plenitude Principle (in abeyance as it probably needs changing in light of Hawthorne and Uzquiano's Angels paper, so on the backburner it goes)

Thesis

My thesis is titled 'The Restricted Composition of Material Objects'. I call it 'Typofest 2007'. Feel free to download a copy by clicking here.