Faculty Publications
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"On the Viability of Galilean Relationalism," The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Dec 2017, Volume 68, Number 4, pp. 1183-1204.
"Free Speech Skepticism," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 31:2 (2021), pp. 101-132.
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Stereotypes and Scripts: How Language Shapes and Resists Expectations. Oxford University Press. 2025
"Philosophical Intuitions about Socially Significant Terms." Hypatia. 2024
"Generics and Social Justice." Philosophical Studies. 2023
"How to Disrupt a Social Script." Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 2023
"Normative Generics and Social Kind Terms." Inquiry. 2022
"Generics as Instructions." Synthese. 2021
"Normative Generics: Against Polysemy." Thought. 2021
"Illocutionary Frustration." Mind. 2018.
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Images. London: Routledge, 2014.
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"Continuous Extension and Indivisibles in Galileo." In S. Shapiro and G. Hellman, eds., The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press (2021): 82-103.
BOOKS:
Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University Press (2016).
ARTICLES:
(with Don Fallis) "Right for the wrong reasons: Common bad arguments for the correct answer to the Monty Hall problem," Synthese 207: 53 (2026).
"A dilemma for relational quantum mechanics," Principia 28: 383–399 (2024).
(with Nihel Jhou) "The indeterminate present," Inquiry 67: 1434–1447 (2024).
(with Don Fallis and Branden Fitelson) "Accuracy-first epistemology and scientific progress", Ergo 11: 4 (2024).
(with Don Fallis) "Simulation and self-location," Synthese 220:180 (2023).
"Explicating quantum indeterminacy," in Valia Allori (ed.), Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality. Springer, 351–364 (2022).
"Against 'experience'," in Shan Gao (ed.), Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics. Oxford University Press, 140–155 (2022).
(with Don Fallis) "Animal Deception and the Content of Signals," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 87: 114–124 (2021).
(with Don Fallis), "Accuracy, conditionalization, and probabilism," Synthese 198: 4017–4033 (2021).
"Collapse Theories", in Eleanor Knox & Alastair Wilson (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Physics. Routledge, 247–256 (2021).
"On closing the circle", in Valia Allori, Angelo Bassi, Detlef Dürr & Nino Zanghì (eds.), Do Wave Function Jump?Springer, 121–132 (2021).
"Quantum Mechanics and its (Dis)Contents", in J. Saatsi and S. French (eds.), Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford University Press, 168–182 (2020).
"On the Status of Primitive Ontology", in S. Gao (ed.), Collapse of the Wave Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 154–166 (2018).
(with Don Fallis), "The Brier Rule is Not a Good Measure of Epistemic Utility (and Other Useful Facts about Epistemic Betterness)", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94: 576–590 (2016).
"Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics", in J. Fieser and B. Dowden (eds.), The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/qm-inter/ (2015).
"Retrocausal Quantum Mechanics: Maudlin's Challenge Revisited", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics44: 442–449 (2013).
"Dimension and Illusion", in A. Ney and D. Albert (eds.), The Wave Function. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 110–125 (2013).
"Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics", Manuscrito 33: 285–306 (2010).
"Probability, Self-Location, and Quantum Branching", Philosophy of Science 76: 1009–1019 (2009).
"Metaphysics and Quantum Physics", in R. Le Poidevin, P. Simons, A. McGonigal and R. Cameron (eds.), Routledge Companion to Metaphysics. Abingdon: Routledge, 517–526 (2009).
"How Bohm's Theory Solves the Measurement Problem", Philosophy of Science 74: 749–760 (2007).
"Uncertainty and Probability for Branching Selves", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38: 1–14 (2007).
"Quantum Sleeping Beauty", Analysis 67: 59–65 (2007).
"Conspiracy Theories of Quantum Mechanics", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57: 359–381 (2006).
"Interpreting Spontaneous Collapse Theories", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36: 165–180 (2005).
"Life in Configuration Space", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55: 713–729 (2004).
"Quantum Mechanics and Ordinary Language: The Fuzzy Link", Philosophy of Science 70: 1437–1446 (2003).
"Why the Pessimistic Induction is a Fallacy", Synthese 129: 371–380 (2001).
"What is it Like to be Schrödinger's cat?", Analysis 60.1: 22–29 (2000).
"Quantum Mechanics, Orthogonality and Counting", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48: 313–328 (1997).
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Stephen Mackereth, "Conservativeness and Neo-Logicism." To appear in The Journal of Philosophy.
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"Law, Morality, and Everything Else: General Jurisprudence as a Branch of Metanormative Inquiry", Ethics. (2017). Vol. 128, No. 1, 37-68. Co-authored with Scott Shapiro.
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“Truth criteria and the very project of a transcendental logic”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 91:2 (2009) 1-49.
Journal Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:
"Engineering the Concept of Pain for Clinical Practice." Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming).
"Color, Pain, and the Agent-Centered Model of Perception". In: Curry, D., Daoust, L., Edgar, S., Hamid, N. (Eds), Modern Mind: Essays in Honor of Gary Hatfield, Routledge (Forthcoming).
"Illusions, Art, and Seeing with Color." Exhibition catalogue essay, Museo de Ciencias, Universidad de Navarra (Forthcoming).
"Women's Pain and Psychogenic Diagnoses" (with Sara Purinton). Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-026-10327-5
"The Pain System is Not a Bodily Disturbance Detector." In: Cuevas-Badallo, A., Martín-Villuendas, M., Gefaell, J. (Eds) Life and Mind: Theoretical and Applied Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. Springer, Cham (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70847-3_5 /
"Seeing with color: Psychophysics and the function of color vision." Synthese 202, 20 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04226-y
"Color and Competence: A New View of Color Perception." In: Viejo, J.M., Sanjuán, M. (Eds) Life and Mind. Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, vol 8. Springer, Cham (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30304-3_5
Accessible Philosophy:
"Animal Minds." In: 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology (2025). https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/03/24/animal-minds/
"Philosophy of Pain." In: 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology (2025). https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/01/08/philosophy-of-pain/
"Philosophy of Color." In: 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology (2023). https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/10/26/philosophy-of-color/
Translation:
"བོད་ཀྱི་དམངས་ཁྲོད་སྒྲུང་གཏམ། / Tibetan Folktales" (with Nyima Dekyi). Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India (2019).
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'Plato on Metaphysical Explanation: Does 'Participating' Mean Nothing?', Studia Philosophica Estonica - Special Issue on Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essence and Ground, Sirkel and Tahko (eds.), 7.2 (2014) 168-194.
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"Clarissa Dalloway and the Tragedy of Appreciation", European Journal of Philosophy.
Washington, Y. (2025). Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 55(2), 127-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931241299883