Research

Philosophy most fowl.

This is me giving a philosophy talk in a brewery with loudly objecting chickens. An apt capture of life in academia.

UC Davis DEX 2025

Published

Monographs – Books

2023Parts and WholesElements in Metaphysics. Cambridge University Press.

Articles – Journal Entries

forth. – “Choose Your Own Essentia” (co-author Jason Bowers) Philosophy and Literature (accepted Dec 2025)

2022 – “Mental Fictionalism” (draft); T. Demeter, T. Parent, and A. Toon (eds.), Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations (Routledge) 2022

2022 – “Mental fictionalism – a foothold amid deflationary collapse ” (draft); T. Demeter, T. Parent, and A. Toon (eds.), Mental Fictionalism: Philosophical Explorations (Routledge) 2022

2021 – “The Polysemy of ‘part’Synthese 198, 4331–4354 (2021); online 2019

2020“Counterexamples and Commonsense: When (Not) to Tollens a Ponens” Analysis 80(3): 544-558

2019 – “The Lump Sum: A Theory of Modal Parts” Philosophical Papers

2018 – “The Haecceitic Euthyphro problem” (co-author Jason Bowers) Analysis 78(1): 13-22

2016 – “Saving Mental Fictionalism from Cognitive Collapse” in Res Philosophica 93(2): 405-424

2015 – “Rearming the Slingshot?Acta Analytica 30(3): 283-292

2014 – “Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Modal Parts” in Composition as Identity, eds. Donald Baxter and Aaron Cotnoir, OUP (2014)

2014 – “The Argument from Vagueness for Modal Parts” in dialectica vol. 68 (3): 355-373

2013 – “Counterparts and Compositional Nihilism: A Reply to A. J. Cotnoir” in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy vol. 2 (3): 242-247

2011 – “Composition as Identity: Part 1” in Philosophy Compass vol. 6(11): 804-816

2011 – “Composition as Identity: Part 2 ” in Philosophy Compass vol. 6(11): 817-827

Public Philosophy & Pedagogy 

2024 – “Philosophy through Spectacle” for the Art of Teaching Philosophy. Bloomsbury Press.

2023 – “Circo e Filosofia: Ensinando Aristóteles com Malabarismo” (translation) in Úrsula

2022 – “Circus and Philosophy: Teaching Aristotle Through Juggling” revised reprint in CircusTalk

2021 – “Circus and Philosophy: Teaching Aristotle Through Juggling” in Aesthetics for Birds

In Progress

  • Transworld Objects: A Theory of Modal Parts – manuscript in progress
  • “Transworld Persons” – in progress