The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality

Publications by Arché members (past and present)

Review of K. Fine, Modality and Tense (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), Forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy

‘A Note on Kripke’s Footnote 56 Argument for the Essentiality of Origin’ Ratio XVIII(3), p262-275, (2005). (link)

Comments on Merricks' 'Truth and Ontology', forthcoming in Philosophical Books (link)

From Humean Truthmaker Theory to Priority Monism, forthcoming in Nous (link)

‘Lewisian Realism: Methodology Epistemology and Circularity’, Synthese, 156.1, p.143-159, (2007) (link)

‘Much Ado About Nothing: A Study of Metaphysical Nihilism’, Erkenntnis 64.2, pp.193-222, (2006) (link)

On the Source of Necessity, forthcoming in The Logic, Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality, edited by Bob Hale, Ross Cameron and Aviv Hoffmann, OUP (link)

Quantification, Naturalness and Ontology, forthcoming in New Waves in Metaphysics, edited by Allan Hazlett, Palgrave-Macmillan (link)

Recombination and Intrinsicality, Ratio XXI(1), p.1-12, (2008) (link)

‘Reply to Rohbraugh and DeRosset on the Necessity of Origin’ (with Sonia Roca) Mind 115, 2006, pp. 361-66 (link)

'Subtractability and Concreteness' The Philosophical Quarterly Vol.57, No.227, p273-279, (2007) (link)

The Contingency of Composition, Philosophical Studies Vol.136, No.1, p99-121, (2007) (link)

‘Tropes, Necessary Connections and Non-Transferability’, Dialectica 60.2, p99-113, (2006) (link)

‘Truthmaker Necessitarianism and Maximalism’, Logique et Analyse 48.189-192, p43-56, (2005) (link)

Truthmakers and Modality, forthcoming in Synthese (link)

Truthmakers and Necessary Connections, Synthese, 161.1, p. 27-45, (2008) (link)

Turtles all the way down: Regress, priority and fundamentality in metaphysics, The Philosophical Quarterly Vol.58, No.230, p1-14, (2008) (link)

What's metaphysical about metaphysical necessity?, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) (link)

‘Agnosticism About Other Worlds: A New Antirealist Programme in Modality’, In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. LXIX, No.3, November 2004.

'Genuine Modal Realism: Still Limited' (with Joseph Melia) In Mind 115, 2006

'Possible-worlds Semantics Without Possible Worlds: The Agnostic Approach' , In Mind 115, 2006, pp. 187-225

'Quinean Scepticism About De Re Modality After David Lewis', Forthcoming in European Journal of Philosophy, 2007 (link)

'Review: R.Girle, Possible Worlds (Acumen, Bucks)' Philosophical Books Vol 45, No.3, pp.240-1

Review: R.Stalnaker, Ways a World Might Be (Clarendon, Oxford)', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (link)

'Review: T.Tszabo-Gendler & J.Hawthorne (eds) Conceivability and Possibility (Clarendon: Oxford)', Mind 113, pp.347-51

The Modal Fictionalist Predicament (with Jason Hagen), In F. MacBride (ed.) Identity and Modality: New Essays in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, pp.57-73

'The Modal Metaphysics of Alvin Plantinga' , Forthcoming in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Alvin Plantinga, Deane-Peter Baker (ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2007

‘Bird on Dispositions and Antidotes’, Philosophical Quarterly 50, (2000)

‘In Defence of the Conditional Account of Dispositions’, Synthese 130 (2002)

‘Necessity, Identity and Time’, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 37 (2002)

‘Outline of a New Semantics for Counterfactuals’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85, (2004)

‘CCCP’, Forthcoming in a Festsschrift for Crispin Wright, edited by Alex Miller & Annalisa Coliva

‘Knowledge of Possibility and of Necessity’ Presidential Address to October 2002 meeting of the Aristotelian Society, published in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Vol 103 Part 1, pp.1-20

‘Putnam’s Retreat: Some reflections on Hilary Putnam’s Changing Views about Metaphysical Necessity’ in Peter A French & Howard K Wettstein, eds. Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol XXVIII The American Philosophers, pp.351-79 2004

‘The Necessity of Identity’, Logica Yearbook 2003, pp.21-33

‘A Puzzle about Truth and Singular Propositions’, Mind, 112, pp. 635-651 2003 (link)

'Are Propositions sets of Possible Worlds?', Talk given at Arche (November 2007), University of Haifa (November 2007)

'How Not to Diversify a Brock-Rosen', Talk given at MIT (September 2003)

'Intrinsic Properties', Talk given at the New Israeli Philosophical Association (February 2007)

'Necessity: Thinking Outside the Box', Talk given at New York University (September 2004)

'On the Plurality of Worlds in the Metaphysics of Modality', Talk given at the Open University of Israel (June 2007)

'Possible Worlds', Talk given at Ben-Gurion University, Israel (March 2003)

'Response to Robert Stalnaker' in Modality: Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Logic. Hale B., Cameron R., and Hoffmann A. (eds) Oxford University Press – forthcoming

Review: Joseph Melia Modality, Philosophical Books. 46, pp.163-5 (2005)

'Speaking of Possible Worlds', Talk given at Iowa State University (April 2004), University of Glasgow (January 2004), Ben-Gurion University (December 2003)

'Concepts, Experience and Modal Knowledge', in Cameron, Hale and Hoffmann (ed.s) The Logic, Epistemology and Metaphysics of Modality (link)

'Modal Knowledge, Counterfactual Knowledge and the Role of Experience' in Philosophical Quarterly (link)

‘Realism and Independence’, in American Philosophical Quarterly (link)

Review of Kvanvig's 'The Knowability Paradox', in Mind (link)

'Flexible Property Designators', Grazer Philosophische Studien, 73, 221–230 (link)

'Por qué la aposterioridad no (basta, según Kripke, ni) basta', Theoria 21, 245–55

‘Rigidity for Predicates and the Trivialization Problem’, Philosophers’ Imprint (link)

‘Rigidity, General Terms, and Trivialization’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 107, 117–23 (link)

‘The Over-Generalization Problem’, Synthese Synthese 163, 263–72 (link)

Review of Modality by Joseph Melia, Forthcoming in Mind

'Selfless Desires', Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (link)

'Is Everything A World?' , Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies (link)

'Review of Possible Worlds by John Divers', In Philosophical Books 46, pp. 371-374 (link)

'On Knowing What is Necessary: Three Limitations of Peacocke's Account' In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64, pp. 656–63

'The Conceivability of Naturalism', In T. Gendler and J. O’Leary-Hawthorne (eds), Imagination, Conceivability and Possibility, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 401–39

Publications by network members

‘Combinatorialism and the Possibility of Nothing’ (with Tom Stoneham), In Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (special issue on The Philosophy of D.M. Armstrong), 2006

'Genuine Modal Realism and the Empty World' (with Tom Stoneham), Forthcoming in European Journal of Analytic Philosophy

‘The Subtraction Argument for Metaphysical Nihilism’ (with Tom Stoneham), In The Journal of Philosophy, CII.6 (June 2005), pp. 303-25

'Narrow Content and Representationalism - or Twin Earth Revisited', 2003 Patrick Romanell Lecture, Proceedings American Philosophical Association, 77, 2 (Nov. 2003), pp. 55 - 71

'Counterparts and Actuality' (with Michael Fara), In Mind 114. (link)