Metaphysics

• Grounding as the Primitive Concept of Metaphysical Structure
• The Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson's Ordinary Objects (draft of 9/28/09)
• The Internal Relatedness of All Things (penultimate draft)
• Truthmaker Commitments
• Truth and Fundamentality: On Merrick's Truth and Ontology
• Spacetime the One Substance
• On What Grounds What
• The Least Discerning and Most Promiscuous Truthmaker (penultimate draft)
• Review of Hüttemann's What's Wrong with Microphysicalism?
• Monism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Monism: The Priority of the Whole (penultimate draft)
• From Nihilism to Monism
• Quiddistic Knowledge
• Of Ghostly and Mechanical Events
• Two Conceptions of Sparse Properties
• Is There a Fundamental Level?
• The Problem of Free Mass: Must Properties Cluster?
• The Individuation of Tropes

Epistemology

• Contrastive Knowledge Surveyed (co-authored with Joshua Knobe; draft of 10/5/09)
• Knowing the Answer Redux: Replies to Brogaard and Kallestrup
• The Debasing Demon (penultimate draft)
• Knowledge in the Image of Assertion (penultimate draft)
• The Contrast Sensitivity of Knowledge Ascriptions
• The Irrelevance of the Subject: Against Subject-Sensitive Invariantism
• Knowing the Answer
• Closure, Contrast, and Answer
• What Shifts? Thresholds, Standards, or Alternatives?
• Contrastive Knowledge
• From Contextualism to Contrastivism
• Perceptual Knowledge Derailed
• Skepticism, Contextualism, and Discrimination
• Knowledge, Relevant Alternatives, and Missed Clues

Language

• Conditionals, Mood, and the Oswald Argument (draft of 11/5/09)
• Necessitarian Propositions
• The Schmentencite Way Out: Towards an Index-Free Semantics (draft of 8/21/09)
• Contextualism for Taste Claims and Epistemic Modals (penultimate draft)

Causation

• Contrastive Causation in the Law
• Review of Price and Corry's Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality (penult. draft)
• Causal Contextualisms (penultimate draft)
• Deterministic Chance?
• Review of Dowe and Noordhof's Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World
• Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism (penultimate draft)
• Contrastive Causation
• Counterfactuals, Causal Independence, and Conceptual Circularity
• Causes Need Not be Physically Connected to their Effects: The Case for Negative Causation
• Principled Chances
• The Metaphysics of Causation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Overdetermining Causes
• Review of Dowe's Physical Causation
• Causation, Influence, and Effluence
• Causes as Probability-Raisers of Processes
• Causation by Disconnection
• Overlappings: Probability-Raising without Causation
• Trumping Preemption