My research mostly concerns metaphysics and the philosophy of time. As some of the titles of my published work suggest, I write about presentism a lot. In general, I'm interested in the metaphysics of x for all values of x.
Book:
2019. Thisness Presentism: An Essay on Time, Truth, & Ontology, Routledge
* Review by Natalja Deng for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
* Review by Walter Schweidler for KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time
Articles:
Forthcoming. Presentism and Eternalism.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, ed. N. Emery, Routledge
2023. Presentism: Past and Future. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Time & Science, eds. Lestienne & Harris, World Scientific Publishing: 191–209
2021. The Rotten Core of Presentism. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Synthese 199: 3969–3991
2020. A Defence of Lucretian Presentism. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98: 675–690
2020. Presentism and the Spans of Time. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 101: 200–214
2018. Thisnesses, Propositions, and Truth.
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99: 442–463
2017. Truth and Dependence. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Ergo 4: 955–980
2016. Platonism, Alienation, and Negativity.
Erkenntnis 81: 1273–1285
2016. The Virtues of Thisness Presentism.
Philosophical Studies 173: 2867–2888
2015. Nefarious Presentism. (with Jonathan Tallant)
The Philosophical Quarterly 65: 355–371
2012. Presentism and Distributional Properties. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 7, eds. Bennett & Zimmerman, Oxford University Press: 305–314
2012. Time for Distribution? (with Jonathan Tallant)
Analysis 72: 264–270
Encyclopedia Entries:
Presentism (with Jonathan Tallant)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E.N. Zalta
Haecceity and Thisness
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Book Reviews:
The Open Future by Patrick Todd
Metaphilosophy 54: 364–367
McTaggart's Paradox by R.D. Ingthorsson
The Review of Metaphysics 72: 140–141
My Erdös number is 7: (1) R. D. Mauldin, (2) John P. Burgess, (3) JC Beall, (4) David Ripley, (5) Sam Baron, (6) Jonathan Tallant, (7) me.
Book:
2019. Thisness Presentism: An Essay on Time, Truth, & Ontology, Routledge
* Review by Natalja Deng for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
* Review by Walter Schweidler for KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time
Articles:
Forthcoming. Presentism and Eternalism.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, ed. N. Emery, Routledge
2023. Presentism: Past and Future. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Time & Science, eds. Lestienne & Harris, World Scientific Publishing: 191–209
2021. The Rotten Core of Presentism. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Synthese 199: 3969–3991
2020. A Defence of Lucretian Presentism. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98: 675–690
2020. Presentism and the Spans of Time. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 101: 200–214
2018. Thisnesses, Propositions, and Truth.
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99: 442–463
2017. Truth and Dependence. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Ergo 4: 955–980
2016. Platonism, Alienation, and Negativity.
Erkenntnis 81: 1273–1285
2016. The Virtues of Thisness Presentism.
Philosophical Studies 173: 2867–2888
2015. Nefarious Presentism. (with Jonathan Tallant)
The Philosophical Quarterly 65: 355–371
2012. Presentism and Distributional Properties. (with Jonathan Tallant)
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 7, eds. Bennett & Zimmerman, Oxford University Press: 305–314
2012. Time for Distribution? (with Jonathan Tallant)
Analysis 72: 264–270
Encyclopedia Entries:
Presentism (with Jonathan Tallant)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E.N. Zalta
Haecceity and Thisness
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Book Reviews:
The Open Future by Patrick Todd
Metaphilosophy 54: 364–367
McTaggart's Paradox by R.D. Ingthorsson
The Review of Metaphysics 72: 140–141
My Erdös number is 7: (1) R. D. Mauldin, (2) John P. Burgess, (3) JC Beall, (4) David Ripley, (5) Sam Baron, (6) Jonathan Tallant, (7) me.