Research
For a list of all publications and
works- in-progress, see my C.V.
An overarching
concern in my work is: What are the limits of
philosophical inquiry? The issue concerns
cognitive limits, but often it is not an epistemic issue
about limited evidence on answers to
philosophical questions. It is rather
about whether we can adequately articulate
such answers in the first place. More details are available
HERE , and in the
abstracts linked below.
Mental
Fictionalism
Mental
Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations
[edited with T. Demeter & A. Toon] New York:
Routledge, forthcoming.
What
is Mental Fictionalism? [with T. Demeter & A.
Toon]. In Mental
Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations , T.
Demeter, T. Parent, & A. Toon (eds.). New York:
Routledge, 2022. pp. 1-24.
I Think; Therefore, I am a
Fiction Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical
Explorations , T. Demeter, T. Parent, & A. Toon
(eds.). New York: Routledge, 2022. pp. 217-234.
Theory Dualism
and the Metalogic of Mind-Body Problems 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
Eliminativism
and Reading One's Own Mind
Self-Knowledge
Self-Reflection for the
Opaque Mind New York: Routledge,
2017.
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; March 2016, pp.
223-242 .
Colivan
Commitment vis-à-vis Moore's Paradox Philosophia ,
47.2; April 2019, pp. 323-333.
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 [For a planned festschrift on William
Lycan, edited by Mitch Green & Jan Michel]
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.
Beall &
Cotnoir on Omnipotence
Modal Realism and
the Meaning of 'Exist'
Conservative Meinongianism: An
Actualist+ Metaphysics
Philosophical
Logic
Knowing -W h and Embedded
Questions Philosophy Compass ,
9.2; Feb. 2014, pp. 81– 95.
Note on
Induction Think
[Cambridge UP], 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
Intensionality
from Self-Reference
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 .