Research

This page lists only a few publications. (They are not my most cited, but they are my favorites.) For list of all publications and works-in-progress, with abstracts and download links, visit my profile on philpapers.org. Or see the publication list on my C.V.

For a selective summary of my research, see HERE.


Most recommended:

Rule Following and Metaontology. Journal of Philosophy, 112.5; 2015, pp. 247265.


Theory Dualism and the Metalogic of Mind-Body Problems. In The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods, C. Daly (ed.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2015. pp. 497–526. A condensed version of this material is found in subsection 2.4  of Section 2, in Parent, T., Toon, A., and Demeter, T. (under contract). Mental Fictionalism: Elements in Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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.

Chapter 1: How is Rational Theism Possible? In A Critique of Metaphysical Thinking, in progress.

An Anomaly in Diagonalization, complete draft.


Also recommended (papers in metaphilosophy):

Preamble: Is Philosophy Anti-Scientific? In Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind: An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy. New York & London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 3-34.

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, 2024, pp. 273-298.

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, 2026, pp. 73-88.



Recommended non-academic work:

The Wild in Kazakhstan: A Professor Writes to a Student about Depression, complete draft.



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