Publications
- (forthcoming) 'Explaining Contingent Facts', Philosophical Studies
- (forthcoming) 'Neo-Rationalist Metaphysics', Principle of Sufficient Reason (Eds. Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca)
- (forthcoming) 'Metaphysical Explanation in Spinoza and Leibniz' Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding (Ed. M. Raven)
- (forthcoming) 'Russell's Commitment to the Principle of Acquaintance' Oxford Handbook of Bertrand Russell (Ed. K. Klement)
- (2013) 'The Role of Attention in Russell's Theory of Knowledge' British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (6): 1175-1193.
Work in Progress and Under Review
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-- Paper on how feminist ideology can be reconciled with Islam [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- Paper that provides a new argument for a commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- Paper that argues that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is not threatened by quantum mechanics [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- Paper in which I argue that fundamentality is relative to a mode of explanation. [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- 'The Case for Eliminating Identity' [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- 'Ignorance Lost: How We Cognize Things in Themselves' [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- 'The Leibnizian World as an Individual' [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
-- 'A Puzzle about Epistemic Injustice' [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
-- 'Nonsense and the First Person' [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- Paper that provides a new argument for a commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- Paper that argues that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is not threatened by quantum mechanics [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- Paper in which I argue that fundamentality is relative to a mode of explanation. [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- 'The Case for Eliminating Identity' [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- 'Ignorance Lost: How We Cognize Things in Themselves' [Abstract; Draft Available]
-- 'The Leibnizian World as an Individual' [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
-- 'A Puzzle about Epistemic Injustice' [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
-- 'Nonsense and the First Person' [Abstract; Draft Available]
Dissertation Abstract
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that everything has an explanation. My dissertation defends the PSR—what many take to be a prime tenet of the rationalist metaphysics of Leibniz and Spinoza—from three influential challenges: (1) that we lack reason to accept the PSR; (2) that the principle is not consistent with the now widespread recognition of metaphysically fundamental facts; (3) that the PSR entails that the world could not have been otherwise. A longer dissertation abstract can be found here.
Research Statement
My current and planned research projects lie in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, the history of early modern philosophy (including Kant), and the history of analytic philosophy (Frege, Russell and early Wittgenstein). I have papers-in-progress in all these areas, many of which I have had the opportunity to workshop at several venues. Descriptions of some of these projects can be found here.
Other Projects
Co-Editor (with Michael Della Rocca) -- Oxford Philosophical Concepts: The Principle of Sufficient Reason (OUP)
Conference Organizer -- Metaphysics and its History: Regress Arguments (May 3-4, 2019) -- See here for the program.
Conference Organizer -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason: Then and Now (April 13-14, 2018) -- See here for the program.
Conference Organizer -- Metaphysics and its History: Regress Arguments (May 3-4, 2019) -- See here for the program.
Conference Organizer -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason: Then and Now (April 13-14, 2018) -- See here for the program.
