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Books

  1. Does Tomorrow Exist?: A Debate, Routledge (2023; co-authored with Kristie Miller).
  2. Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility, OUP (2020).
  3. An Introduction to Ontology, Polity Press (2013).
  4. ​Key Concepts in Metaphysics, Routledge (2010; co-authored with Helen Beebee and Philip Goff).

Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Temporal Parts, Stanford  Encyclopedia of Philosophy (invited submission, taking over from Katherine Hawley).
  2. Fragmenting the Paradox of Material Constitution, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).
  3. Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine-tuning Argument, Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming).
  4. Human Time and Time travel, in The Oxford Handbook of Time in Thought and Language ed. Kasia Jaszczolt and Giuliano Torrengo (invited submission).
  5. Who’s that guy? Exploring Trans-Universe Identity, in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy and the Multiverse ed. Klaas Kraay and Daniel Rubio (invited submission).
  6. The Problem of Change, in Routledge’s Perspectives in Metaphysics ed. J. Barker (invited submission).
  7. Driving Through The 4th Dimension in 4th Gear, in Back to the Future and Philosophy: This is Heavy! ed. J. Heter and R. Greene (2026): 4-17.
  8. Time Travel, in Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time ed. N. Emery (2025): 270-279.
  9. Would God really send me to Hell for stealing a Wispa bar?, Sophia 63 (2024): 85-97.
  10. Location and Properties, in Routledge Handbook of Properties ed. A.R.J. Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maurin (2024): 148-158.
  11. The Metatheoretical Location of our Commitments: Heterodox truthmaking as a case study, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (2024): 745-58.
  12. The Metaphysical Possibility of Time Travel Fictions, Erkenntnis 88 (2023): 1309-29.
  13. The Wave Theory of Time: A Comparison to Competing Tensed Theories, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 9 (2023): 172-192.
  14. Reincarnation, Religious Studies Archive, 7 (2023).
  15. The Close Possibility of Time Travel, Philosophies, 8 (2023).
  16. Fission Theories of Original Guilt, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 92 (2022): 15-30.
  17. Celebrities Discuss Philosophy #4: A Transcript, Think 21 (2022): 57-72.
  18. In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: Reply to Cumpa and Declos, Philosophia 50 (2022): 1707-19.
  19. ​Vacillating Time: A Metaphysics for Time Travel and Geachianism, Synthese 199 (2021): 7159-80.
  20. The CaML Model of Pantheism, Religious Studies 57 (2021): 575-96.
  21. Slot Theory and Slotite Theory, Philosophia 49 (2021): 17-35.​
  22. Tense, Special Relativity, and Flow: A Wave Theoretic View, in La métaphysique du temps: Perspectives contemporaines ed. Declos, A. and Tiercelin, C. (2021).
  23. Exterminous Hypertime, Philosophies 6 (2021).
  24. Using Wormholes to Solve the Problem of Evil, TheoLogica 4 (2020).
  25. Mereological Nominalism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (2020): 168-85.
  26. The Philosophy of Filioque, Religious Studies 54 (2018): 297-312.
  27. Multiple Studies and Weak Evidential Defeat, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2017): 353-66 (co-authored with Malcolm James Price).
  28. The Location of Properties, Noûs 49 (2015): 643-66.
  29. Properties are Potatoes: An essay on ontological parsimony, in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods ed. Chris Daly (2015): 282-305.
  30. Multiple Location and Christian Philosophical Theology, Faith and Philosophy 32 (2015): 25-44.
  31. Contemporary Philosophy, in Time Travel in the Media: Philosophy and Theory ed. Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod (2015): 20-34.
  32. Harmoniously Investigating Concrete Structures, Thought 2 (2013): 190-95.
  33. Impure Sets May Be Located: A reply to Cook, Thought 1 (2013): 330-36.
  34. An Unwelcome Consequence of the Multiverse Thesis, Synthese 184 (2012): 375-86.
  35. Talking about something (but really talking about nothing), Analysis 72 (2012): 329-40.
  36. Endurantism and Perdurantism, in Continuum Companion to Metaphysics ed. Manson and Barnard (2012): 179-97.
  37. Undermining Motivations for Universalism, Noûs 45 (2011): 696-713.
  38. Sider, Hawley, Sider and the Vagueness Argument, Philosophical Studies 154 (2011): 241-50.
  39. Temporal Parts and Time Travel, Erkenntnis 74 (2011): 225-40.
  40. Universalism and Classes, dialectica 65 (2011): 451-72.
  41. The Metaphysics of Groups, Philosophical Studies 149 (2010): 251-67.
  42. Mereological Explanation and Time Travel, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010): 333-45.
  43. Universalism, Vagueness and Supersubstantivalism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009): 35-42.
  44. Composition, Persistence and Identity, in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics ed. Le Poidevin, Simons, McGonigal and Cameron (2009): 296-309.
  45. A Mereological Challenge to Endurantism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 633-40 (co-authored with Jon Robson).
  46. ​Endurantism and Timeless Worlds, Analysis 67 (2007): 140-7 (co-authored with Joseph Melia).

Book Reviews

  1. Can we break bread with conspiracy theorists? A review of How to Talk to a Science Denier by Lee McIntyre, Philosophical Psychology 5 (2023): 1030-36.
  2. The Open Future: Why Future Contingent Are All False by Patrick Todd, Faith & Philosophy 39 (2022): 641-645.
  3. What Truth Is by Mark Jago, Philosophical Review 129 (2020): 661-64. 
  4. The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings by Michael Almeida, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (2016): 243-47.
  5. The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy by Gabriele Galluzzo and Michael J. Loux’s (eds.), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2016). 
  6. The Nonexistent by Anthony Everett, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014).

Unpublished Work

​If, for whatever reason, you are interested, my thesis can be found here. Most of it has been published in other (more readable and better written!) articles.