Research
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For a selective summary of my research, see HERE.



Mental Fictionalism

Mental Fictionalism: Elements in Philosophy of Mind [with A. Toon & T. Demeter]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, under contract.

Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations [edited with T. Demeter & A. Toon]. New York & London: Routledge, 2022. 370pp.

What is Mental Fictionalism? [with T. Demeter & A. Toon]. In Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations, T. Demeter, T. Parent, & A. Toon (eds.). New York & London: Routledge, 2022. pp. 1-24.
 
I Think; Therefore, I am a Fiction. In Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations, T. Demeter, T. Parent, & A. Toon (eds.). New York & London: Routledge, 2022. pp. 217-234.
Theory Dualism and the Metalogic of Mind-Body Problems. In Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods, C. Daly (ed.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. pp. 497-526.

In the Mental Fiction, Mental Fictionalism is Fictitious. The Monist, 96.4; Oct. 2013, pp. 605-621.

Ontology after Folk Psychology; or, Why Eliminativists should be Mental Fictionalists. Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming.

Eliminativism and Reading One's Own Mind

Self-Knowledge

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind: An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy. New York & London: Routledge, 2017. 308pp.
 Above is a link to excerpts from the book—included is the front matter, §1 of the preamble, and chapter 1. A complete bibliography is HERE. You can buy the book HERE or HERE.

Infallibilism about Self-Knowledge. Philosophical Studies 133.3; Apr. 2007, pp. 411-424.
Infallibility Naturalized: Reply to Hoffmann. Dialectica, 67.3; Sept. 2013, pp. 353-358.
Externalism and Self-Knowledge. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Summer 2013, E. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-knowledge-externalism/>.
Externalism and “Knowing What” One Thinks. Synthese, 192.5; May 2015, pp. 1337-1350.

Self-Knowledge and Externalism about Empty Concepts. Analytic Philosophy, 56.2; June 2015, pp. 158-168.
The Empirical Case against Infallibilism. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7.1; Mar. 2016, pp. 223-242.
Colivan Commitment vis-à-vis Moore's Paradox. Philosophia, 47.2; Apr. 2019, pp. 323-333.

Knowledge of One's Own Credences. In New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge, A. Andreotta & B. Winokur (eds.). New York & London: Routledge, 2024. pp. 213-234.

Metaontology

A Critique of Metaphysical Thinking.
The above link is to a draft of the front matter and chapter 1 for a new book manuscript.
Ontological Commitment and Quantifiers. Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, R. Bliss & J. Miller (eds.). New York: Routledge, 2020, pp 85-99.
Ontic Terms and Metaontology, or: On What There Actually Is. Philosophical Studies, 170.2; Sept. 2014, pp. 199-214.

Rule Following and Metaontology. Journal of Philosophy, 112.5; May 2015, pp. 247-265.
An Objection to the Laplacean Chalmers. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 47.1; April 2016, pp 237-240.
Content Externalism and Quine's Criterion are Incompatible. Erkenntnis, 82.3; June 2017, pp 625-639.

Philosophy is a Great Success, and We are Fooled into Thinking Otherwise. In William Lycan on Mind, Meaning, and Method, M. Green & J. Michel (eds.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, forthcoming.

Neo-Sellarsian Images of Philosophy and Science. In Wilfrid Sellars’ Images and the Philosophy in Between: Nature and Norms in a Stereoscopic View, K. Pete & L. Kocsis (eds.). London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming.

Ontology & Modality

Modal Metaphysics. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mar. 2012, J. Feiser & B. Dowden (eds.), http://www.iep.utm.edu/mod-meta/

On the PROVER9 Ontological Argument. Philosophia, 43.2; June 2015, pp. 475-483.

 The Modal Ontological Argument meets Modal Fictionalism. Analytic Philosophy, 57.4; Dec. 2016, pp. 338-352.

Against God of the Truth-Value Gaps. Analysis, 84.3; July 2024, pp. 516-522.

Modal Realism and the Meaning of 'Exist'.
Conservative Meinongianism: An Actualist+ Metaphysics.

Philosophical Logic

Knowing-Wh and Embedded Questions. Philosophy Compass, 9.2; Feb. 2014, pp. 81-95.

 Note on Induction. Think, 12.33; Mar. 2013, pp. 37-39.
Quine and Logical Truth. Erkenntnis, 68.1; Jan. 2008, pp. 103-112.
A Dilemma about Kinds and Kind Terms. Synthese, 198; 2021, pp. 2987-3006.

Modest versus Ultra-Modest Dialetheism. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2; 2023, pp. 1-17.



Bonus: An Exchange on Logical Form between William G. Lycan and myself.


If you are looking for the bibliography I compiled on analytic existentialism, click HERE.


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