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Jonathan Schaffer's Publication Information

 

Published Articles

1.     “The Internal Relatedness of All Things,” Mind (forthcoming)

2.     “The Debasing Demon,” Analysis (forthcoming)

3.     Contextualism for Taste Claims and Epistemic Modals,” in Epistemic Modality, eds. Egan and Weatherson (forthcoming): Oxford University Press

4.     “The Least Discerning and Most Promiscuous Truthmaker,” Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)

5.     “The Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson’s Ordinary Objects,” Philosophical Books (forthcoming)

6.     “Causal Contextualisms: Contrast, Default, and Model,” in Contrastivism in Philosophy, ed. Blaauw (forthcoming): Routledge

7.     “Monism: The Priority of the Whole,” The Philosophical Review 119.1 (2010)

8.     “Spacetime the One Substance,” Philosophical Studies 145.1 (2009), 131-48

9.     “Knowing the Answer Redux: Replies to Brogaard and Kallestrup,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78.2 (2009), 477-500

10.  “On What Grounds What,” in Metametaphysics, eds. Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman (2009), 347-83: Oxford University Press

11.  “Knowledge in the Image of Assertion,” Philosophical Issues 18.1 (2008), 1-19

12.  “Truth and Fundamentality: On Merricks’s Truth and Ontology,Philosophical Books 49.4 (2008), 302-16

13.  “The Contrast-Sensitivity of Knowledge Ascriptions,” Social Epistemology 22.3 (2008), 235-45

14.  “Truthmaker Commitments,” Philosophical Studies 141.1 (2008), 7-19

15.  “Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism,” in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, eds. Hawthorne, Sider, and Zimmerman (2007), 82-107: Basil Blackwell

16.  “Knowing the Answer,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75.2 (2007), 383-403 (awarded APA Article Prize, 2008)

17.  “From Nihilism to Monism,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85.2 (2007), 175-91 (awarded AJP Best Paper Award, 2008)

18.  “Closure, Contrast, and Answer,” Philosophical Studies 133.2 (2007), 233-55

19.  “Deterministic Chance?” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58.2 (2007), 113-40

20.  “The Irrelevance of the Subject: Against Subject-Sensitive Invariantism,” Philosophical Studies 127.1 (2006), 87-107

21.  “Le trou noir de la causalité,” Philosophie 89, trans. Kistler and Brabanter (2006), 40-52

22.  “Contrastive Causation,” The Philosophical Review 114.3 (2005), 327-58

23.  “Contrastive Knowledge,” in Oxford Studies in Epistemology 1, eds. Gendler and Hawthorne (2005), 235-71: Oxford University Press

24.  “What Shifts? Thresholds, Standards, or Alternatives?” in Contextualism in Philosophy, eds. Preyer and Peter (2005), 115-30: Oxford University Press

25.  Quiddistic Knowledge,” Philosophical Studies 123.1-2 (2005), 1-32 (reprinted in Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, eds. Jackson and Priest (2004), 210-30: Oxford University Press)

26.  “From Contextualism to Contrastivism,” Philosophical Studies 119.1 (2004), 73-103

27.  “Causes Need Not be Physically Connected to their Effects: The Case for Negative Causation,” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, ed. Hitchcock (2004), 197-216: Basil Blackwell

28.  “Of Ghostly and Mechanical Events,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68.1 (2004), 230-44

29.  “Counterfactuals, Causal Independence, and Conceptual Circularity,” Analysis 64.4 (2004), 299-309

30.  “Two Conceptions of Sparse Properties,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85.1 (2004), 92-102

31.  “Skepticism, Contextualism, and Discrimination,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69.1 (2004), 138-55 (awarded Young Epistemologist Prize, 2002)

32.  “Is There a Fundamental Level?” Noûs 37.3 (2003), 498-517

33.  Overdetermining Causes,” Philosophical Studies 114.1 (2003), 23-45

34.  “The Problem of Free Mass: Must Properties Cluster?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66.1 (2003), 125-38

35.  “Principled Chances,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54.2 (2003), 27-41

36.  “Perceptual Knowledge Derailed,” Philosophical Studies 112.1 (2003), 31-45

37.  “Causes as Probability-Raisers of Processes,” The Journal of Philosophy 98.2 (2001), 75-92

38.  “Causation, Influence, and Effluence,” Analysis 61.4 (2001), 11-19

39.  “The Individuation of Tropes,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79.2 (2001), 247-57

40.  “Knowledge, Relevant Alternatives, and Missed Clues,” Analysis 61.3 (2001), 202-8

41.  “Causation by Disconnection,” Philosophy of Science 67.2 (2000), 285-300 (awarded Philosophy of Science Recent Ph.D. Essay Contest, 2001)

42.  Overlappings: Probability-Raising without Causation,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78.1 (2000), 40-6

43.  “Trumping Preemption,” The Journal of Philosophy 97.4 (2000), 165-81 (reprinted in Causation and Counterfactuals, eds. Collins, Hall, and Paul (2004), 59-73: MIT Press)

 

Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

1.     “Review of Price and Corry’s Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited,Mind (forthcoming)

2.     “Review of Hüttemann’s What’s Wrong with Microphysicalism?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59.2 (2008), 253-7

3.     “Monism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007), <plato.stanford.edu/entries/monism>

4.     “Review of Dowe and Noordhof’s Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World,British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58.4 (2007), 869-74

5.     “The Metaphysics of Causation,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2003, revised 2007), <plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-metaphysics>

6.     “Review of Dowe’s Physical Causation,British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52.4 (2001), 809-13

 

Completed Manuscripts

“Contrastive Knowledge Surveyed” (co-authored with Joshua Knobe, under review)

“Conditionals, Mood, and the Oswald Argument” (under review)

“The Schmentencite Way Out: Towards an Index-Free Semantics” (under review)

“Grounding as the Primitive Concept of Metaphysical Structure,” commissioned for Grounding and Explanation, eds. Correia and Schnieder

 

Works In Progess

 “The Foundations of Inquiry: Where Pyramid Meets Sand,” commissioned for Epistemological Infinitism, eds. Klein and Turri

 “Causation by Disconnection and Responsibility,” commissioned for Legal Theory

 “Contrastive Causation in the Law”