Philosophy

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming, with Marc Lange. "The Necessity of Accidents." The Journal of Philosophy.
• Forthcoming. "Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes." Philosophers' Imprint.
• 2024. "Does the Best System Need the Past Hypothesis?" Philosophy of Science.
• 2023. "Predictive Infelicities and the Instability of Predictive Optimality." In Humean Laws for Human Agents, Michael Hicks, Siegfried Jaag, and Christian Loew (eds.), Oxford University Press.
• 2022, with Kevin Dorst. "Splitting the (In)Difference: Why Fine-Tuning Supports Design." Thought.
• 2022. "Laws, Melodies, and the Paradox of Predictability." Synthese.
• 2021. "There is No Measurement Problem for Humeans." Noûs.
• 2020. "Why do the Laws Support Counterfactuals?" Erkenntnis.
• 2019. "Humean Laws, Explanatory Circularity, and the Aim of Scientific Explanation". Philosophical Studies.
• 2019. "Toward a Best Predictive System Account of Laws of Nature". ​British Journal for the Philosophy of Science​.
• 2017. "Bet Accepted: A Reply to Freitag". Philosophical Quarterly.
• 2016. "Evidence, Significance, and Counterfactuals: Schramm on the New Riddle of Induction". Erkenntnis.

Selected Presentations

• "Superfluous Ideological Superstructure (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Textbook Quantum Mechanics)." Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network. Syracuse NY. June 2023.
• "How Not to Disconfirm GRW." Eastern APA - Society for the Metaphysics of Science Group Session, Montreal QC. January 2023.
• "Fine-Tuning Divine Indifference." Pacific APA, Vancouver BC. April 2022.
• "Productive Laws in Relativistic Spacetimes." Florida Philosophical Association, Miami FL. Feb 2022.
• "Humeanism and the Paradox of Predictability." Central APA, Virtual Meeting. Feb 2021.
• "Laws, Melodies, and the Paradox of Predictability." Accepted for Mount Holyoke Summer Philosophy Conference, Mount Holyoke MA. (Cancelled due to pandemic.)
• "Predictive Infelicities and the Neo-Humean Conception of Laws."
  • Florida Philosophical Association, Gainesville FL. Nov 2019.
  • British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, Durham, UK. Jul 2019
• "Why do the Laws Support Counterfactuals?" Society for the Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference​, ​Milan, Italy. Aug 2018
• Comments on Siegfried Jaag and Christian Loew's "Humean Reductionism and (Iterated) Counterfactuals" Society for the Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference, Milan, Italy. Aug 2018
• Comments on David Kinney's "Bayesian Networks and Multi-Level Causation'. Central APA, Chicago IL. Feb 2018.
• "Laws of Nature, Prediction, and Reductionism". Eastern APA, Savannah GA. Jan 2018
• "Why are the Laws so Useful?" 33r​d​ Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, Boulder CO. Oct 2017.
• "A Tension in the Best System Account of Laws" Pacific APA, Seattle WA. Apr 2017.
• "Contemporary Perspectives on the DN Model of Scientific Explanation" Guest Lecture at Salem State University, Salem MA. Apr 2017.
• Comments on Katie Elliott's "The Applicability Problem for Chance Explanation" UNC Philosophy of Science Conference, Chapel Hill NC. Nov 2015.
• Comments on Lynn Chiu's "An Ecological Challenge Against the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness". Pacific APA, Vancouver BC. April 2015.
• Comments on Guy Hetzroni's "Causation and Unification in Quantum Explanations". Hebrew University—UNC Joint Conference in Philosophy, Chapel Hill NC. May 2014.
• "The Conventionality of the Brain's Functional Topography". Pitt—CMU Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh PA. Mar 2014.