Jonathan Schaffer's Papers
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