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Articles/Book Chapters
1. (forthcoming) ‘Explaining Contingent Facts’ Philosophical Studies [Abstract]
2. (forthcoming) ‘Something from Nothing: Why Some Negative Existentials are Fundamental’ Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence (Eds. Sara Bernstein and Ty Goldschmidt) [Abstract]
3. (forthcoming) 'Russell's Commitment to the Principle of Acquaintance' Oxford Handbook of Bertrand Russell (Ed. K. Klement). [Abstract]
3. (forthcoming) 'Neo-Rationalist Metaphysics', Principle of Sufficient Reason(Eds. Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca) [Abstract]
4. (2020) 'Principle of Sufficient Reason' Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding (Ed. M. Raven) [Abstract]
5. (2013) 'The Role of Attention in Russell's Theory of Knowledge' British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (6): 1175-1193.
2. (forthcoming) ‘Something from Nothing: Why Some Negative Existentials are Fundamental’ Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence (Eds. Sara Bernstein and Ty Goldschmidt) [Abstract]
3. (forthcoming) 'Russell's Commitment to the Principle of Acquaintance' Oxford Handbook of Bertrand Russell (Ed. K. Klement). [Abstract]
3. (forthcoming) 'Neo-Rationalist Metaphysics', Principle of Sufficient Reason(Eds. Fatema Amijee and Michael Della Rocca) [Abstract]
4. (2020) 'Principle of Sufficient Reason' Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding (Ed. M. Raven) [Abstract]
5. (2013) 'The Role of Attention in Russell's Theory of Knowledge' British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (6): 1175-1193.
Encyclopedia Entries
(forthcoming) ‘Principle of Sufficient Reason’, Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Eds. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe).
Book Reviews
(forthcoming) Review of Mark Sinclair’s The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy for Philosophical Review
(forthcoming) Review of Mark Sinclair’s The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy for Philosophical Review
Work in Progress and Under Review
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Feminist ideology can be reconciled with Islam. [Abstract; Draft Available]
We ought to be commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason. [Abstract; Draft Available]
The Principle of Sufficient Reason is not threatened by quantum mechanics. [Abstract; Draft Available]
Fundamentality is relative to a mode of explanation. [Abstract; Draft Available]
We should not be ontologically committed to identity. [Abstract; Draft Available]
How we can reconcile Kant's humility thesis with his claims about things-in-themselves [Abstract; Draft Available]
Contingent facts are explained plurally in Leibniz. [Abstract; Draft Available]
The norms governing epistemic justice are paradoxical. [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
Belief is subject to a nonsense norm. [Abstract; Draft Available]
Du Châtelet’s Argument for a Commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
We ought to be commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason. [Abstract; Draft Available]
The Principle of Sufficient Reason is not threatened by quantum mechanics. [Abstract; Draft Available]
Fundamentality is relative to a mode of explanation. [Abstract; Draft Available]
We should not be ontologically committed to identity. [Abstract; Draft Available]
How we can reconcile Kant's humility thesis with his claims about things-in-themselves [Abstract; Draft Available]
Contingent facts are explained plurally in Leibniz. [Abstract; Draft Available]
The norms governing epistemic justice are paradoxical. [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
Belief is subject to a nonsense norm. [Abstract; Draft Available]
Du Châtelet’s Argument for a Commitment to the Principle of Sufficient Reason [Abstract; Draft in Progress]
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 (with Michael Della Rocca) -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason (Fall 2021, Yale University) -- Program TBA
Conference Organizer (with Dai Heide) -- Metaphysics and its History: Regress Arguments (May 3-4, 2019 , Simon Fraser University) -- See here for the program.
Conference Organizer (with Dai Heide) -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason: Then and Now (April 13-14, 2018, Simon Fraser University) -- See here for the program.
Conference Organizer (with Michael Della Rocca) -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason (Fall 2021, Yale University) -- Program TBA
Conference Organizer (with Dai Heide) -- Metaphysics and its History: Regress Arguments (May 3-4, 2019 , Simon Fraser University) -- See here for the program.
Conference Organizer (with Dai Heide) -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason: Then and Now (April 13-14, 2018, Simon Fraser University) -- See here for the program.
