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), "Toward a Formal Analysis of Deceptive Signaling", Synthese 196: 2279–2303 (2019).
"Quantum Mechanics, Emergence, and Fundamentality", Philosophica 92: 53–75 (2017).
"Holism and Time Symmetry", Quanta 5: 95–92 (2016).
(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).
"In Search of Local Beables", International Journal of Quantum Foundations 1: 215–229 (2015).
"Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics", in J. Fieser and B. Dowden (eds.), The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/int-qm/ (2015).
"Measurement and Metaphysics", in S. Gao (ed.), Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 93–106 (2014).
"Retrocausal Quantum Mechanics: Maudlin's Challenge Revisited", Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 44: 442–449 (2013).
"The Doomsday Argument and the Simulation Argument", Synthese 190: 4009–4022 (2013).
"Dimension and Illusion", in A. Ney and D. Albert (eds.), The Wave Function. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 110–125 (2013).
"Conspiracy Theories of Quantum Mechanics", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57: 359–381 (2006).
"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 and Book Chapters:
"Engineering the Concept of Pain for Clinical Practice." Ergo (Accepted).
"Women's Pain and Psychogenic Diagnoses" (with Sara Purinton). Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-026-10327-5
"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 (Accepted).
"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/
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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