Select Publications
Books
2015, Evolution by Natural Selection Confidence, Evidence and the Gap, CRC Press
,Book Chapters
2022, '"Making Suffering Legible"', in Soldatic K; St Guillaume L (ed.), Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age State Power, Logics and Resistance, Routledge, pp. 226 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003131779-17
,2022, 'Rights, Justice and Flourishing: The Uses and Limitations of Human Rights', in Felder F; Kayess R; Davy L (ed.), Disability Law and Human Rights Theory and Policy, Springer Nature, pp. 67 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86545-0_4
,2013, 'Do engineers need to simulate the real world?', in Elyssebeth L (ed.), Crossing Boundaries, Simulation Australia, Rundle Mall, SA, Australia, pp. 129 - 132
,2012, 'A guru-disciple tradition: Can religious conversion be non-cognitive?', in Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religious Movements, pp. 77 - 95
,2012, 'A guru-disciple tradition: can religious conversion be non-cognitive?', in Luck M (ed.), Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religious Movements, Ashgate, pp. 77 - 96, http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409406532&lang=cy-GB
,2006, 'Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, Ontology and logical entailments', in Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays, Elsevier Ltd, The Netherlands, pp. 35 - 52
,2006, 'Chapter 3 Accounting for Commitments A priori Knowledge, Ontology, and Logical Entailments11This paper derives from work I did while supervised by David Lewis. I benefited immensely from his advice. I also benefited from remarks made on the work by Frank Jackson at the time. More recently I have benefited from comments by Aislinn Batstone, Stephen Hetherington, and Ralph Kennedy.', in Aspects of Knowing, Elsevier, pp. 35 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044979-1/50004-7
,2004, 'The Consolations of Optimism', in Benatar D (ed.), Life, Death and Meaning - Key Philosophy Readings on the Big Questions, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 383 - 389
,2003, 'S.J. Gould`s last Words', in Metascience, Springer, pp. 214 - 216
,1994, 'Cubism, Perspective, Belief1', in Philosophy in Mind, Springer Netherlands, pp. 243 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1008-2_16
,1994, 'Introduction: Philosophy in Mind', in Philosophy in Mind, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1008-2_1
,Journal articles
2017, 'Philosophy, Certainty and Semantic Stretch', Australasian Philosophical Review, 1, pp. 281 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2017.1379878
,2017, 'A Companion To David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95, pp. 416 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1178314
,2016, 'From Correlation to Causation: What Do We Need in the Historical Sciences?', Acta Biotheoretica, 64, pp. 241 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-016-9282-3
,2016, 'Big data and the historical sciences: A critique', Geoforum, 71, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.020
,2016, 'Naming, Necessity, and More: Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke, edited by Jonathan Berg', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94, pp. 836 - 836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1168460
,2015, 'Information and Veridicality: Information-Processing and the Bar-Hillel/Carnap Paradox', Philosophy of Science: official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684165
,2015, 'On a “most telling” argument for paraconsistent logic', Synthese, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0935-6
,2015, 'Time Travel for Endurantists', American Philosophical Quarterly, 52, pp. 357 - 365, http://apq.press.illinois.edu/52/4/index.html
,2015, 'Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought, by Michael T. Ferejohn', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93, pp. 204 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2014.959538
,2013, 'FACING INCONSISTENCY: THEORIES AND OUR RELATIONS TO THEM.', Episteme, 10, pp. 351 - 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2013.31
,2013, 'Problems with Lewis' argument for the identity theory', Ratio, 26, pp. 51 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00538.x
,2012, 'Problems with Lewis' argument for the identity theory', Ratio, 25, pp. 51 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00538.x/full
,2010, 'Belief De Re, knowing who, and singular thought', Journal of Philosophy, 107, pp. 293 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil2010107623
,2010, 'Belief De Re, Knowing Who, and Singular Thought', Journal of Philosophy, CVII, pp. 293 - 310
,2008, 'Implicit ontological commitment', Philosophical Studies, 141, pp. 43 - 61
,2006, '“How should we think of Human Rights?”,', Human Rights Defender, 15
,2004, 'The Problems with Double-indexing Accounts of the A Priori', Philosophical Studies, 118, pp. 67 - 81
,2001, 'Group Blame, Responsibility and Guilt: An Exercise in Social Ontology', Humanitas Asiatica, 2, pp. 39 - 58
,1999, 'Dummett`s Argument Against Classical Logic', Philosophia, pp. 359 - 382
,1998, 'Reasonable Optimism', Professional Ethics, pp. 19 - 31
,1998, 'Tich´y on Kripke on a a posteriori necessities', Philosophical Studies, pp. 113 - 126
,1996, 'Compatibilist semantics in metaphysics: A case study', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74, pp. 117 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048409612347101
,1996, 'Against compatibalist semantics', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, pp. 117 - 134
,1995, 'The dialectics of scepticism: Comments on gallois', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73, pp. 123 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048409512346431
,1995, 'Binary quantification systems', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 36, pp. 382 - 395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1040149354
,1995, 'Binary quantification logics', Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, pp. 382 - 395
,1995, 'The dialectics of scepticism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, pp. 123 - 128
,Conference Papers
2017, 'The limits of simulation in complex engineering systems', in Proceedings of the Australasian Simulation Congress 2017, Simulation Australia, Sydney, presented at Australasian Simulation Conference 2017, Sydney, 28 August 2017 - 31 January 2018, http://proceedings.simulationaustralasia.com/index.html
,2015, 'Are we simulated beings in a holographic universe?', in Monaghan M (ed.), SimTecT and SimHealth 2015 Conference Proceedings, Simulation Australasia, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, pp. 287 - 291, presented at SimTecT2015 Asia-Pacific Simulation Training Conference & Exhibition, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, 17 August 2015 - 21 August 2015, http://www.simulationaustralasia.com/files/upload/pdf/SimTecT%20and%20SimHealth%202015%20Conference%20Proceedings.pdf
,2014, 'ACTING PSYCHIATRY', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 69 - 70, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000337594500165&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2012, 'The philosophy of engineering based swarms', in SimTecT 2012: Simulation - Integrated Solutions, Simulation Australia Ltd, Australia, pp. 1 - 6, presented at Simulation Technology and Training Conference 2012, Adelaide, South Australia, 18 June 2012 - 21 June 2012
,2011, 'Simulation for the real world.', in SimTecT 2011, Simulation Australia, Rundle Mall, South Australia, pp. 124 - 128, presented at Asia-Pacific Simulation and Training Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, 31 May 2011 - 02 June 2011
,Conference Presentations
2014, 'Are simulations models?', presented at SimTecT2014, Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia, 25 August 2014 - 28 August 2014, http://www.simulationaustralia.org.au/
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