Professor of Philosophy
Princeton University

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Princeton University

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Princeton University

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Instructor in Philosophy (tenure-track)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Princeton University
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2006

Magdalen College, University of Oxford
B.Phil. in Philosophy, 2000

Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Undergraduate visiting student in philosophy
Final exam of B.A. course (straight first), 1998

Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany

Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Early Analytic Philosophy

Logic (introductory to intermediate), Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein, Decision Theory, Philosophy of Mind

Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Oxford University Press, 2014.

“Decision, Causality, and Pre-Determination,” forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

“Necessity and Linguistic Rules,” contribution to book symposium on Amie Thomasson's Norms and Necessity, to appear in Inquiry.

“Modality, Capacities, and Intuition,” forthcoming in Philosophisches Jahrbuch.

“Modality, Worlds, Essence, and Modal Knowledge,” to appear in Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology, ed. A. Vaidya and D. Prelevic, Routledge.

“Russell-Myhill and Grounding,” Analysis 82, 2022: 49–60.

“Essence and Modal Knowledge,” Synthese 198, 2021: 1957–79.

“De re modality,” in Routledge Handbook of Modality, ed. by O. Bueno and S. Shalkowski, Routledge, 2021: 70–81.

“Counterfactuals and Causal Reasoning,” in Perspectives on Causation, ed. by E. Siegal and N. Boneh, Springer, 2020: 463–82.

“Chance and the Structure of Modal Space,” Mind 127, 2018: 633–55.

“Free Will and Ultimate Explanation,” Philosophical Issues 27, 2017: 114–30.

“Summary of Modality and Explanatory Reasoning” and “Replies to Dorr, Hill, and Yablo,” Analysis 77, 2017: 129–33, 166–88.

“Model Theory and Contingent Existence,” Analysis 76, 2016: 172–190.

“Précis of Modality and Explanatory Reasoning” and “Reply to Sullivan and Lange,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 91(2), 2015: 489–498, 516–539.

“Modality, Metaphysics, and Method,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods, ed. by C. Daly, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015: 179–207.

“Haecceitism, Chance, and Counterfactuals,” Philosophical Review 121, 2012: 573–609.

“Varieties of Modality,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published 2012, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-varieties/.

“Causation: Determination and Difference-Making,” Noûs 44, 2010: 80–111.

“Counterfactuals and Explanation,” Mind 115, 2006: 261–310.

“Counterfactuals and the Analysis of Necessity,” Philosophical Perspectives 20, 2006: 237–302.

“Conditionals,” in D. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 2, Detroit (Macmillan), 2006: 424–430.

“Cantorian Paradoxes.”

Ground and Paradox, book manuscript.

“Instrumental Rationality and Doxastic Paradox.”

Modality, under contract with Princeton UP, volume in the series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy.

Behrman Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Humanities Council, Princeton University

Class of 1936 Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University

American Council of Learned Societies, Summer Stipend

Princeton Dean of the Faculty top-up award (topping up the ACLS Ryskamp fellowship)

American Council of Learned Societies Ryskamp Fellowship

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Emerging Scholars Prize, Institute for the Humanities,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Denise Research Fellowship, Department of Philosophy,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

William Wilhartz Assistant Professorship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mrs. Giles Whiting Honorific Fellowship

Arts and Humanities Research Board Postgraduate Scholarship

College Book Prize in Philosophy (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Scholar of the Year 1997/1998 in Philosophy (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Title TBD, panel on essence, grounding, and modality, Pacific APA

“Rational Choice, Causality, and Predetermination,” DEX VII, University of California, Davis.

“Pre-Determination and Rational Choice,” Princeton Faculty Lunch-time Colloquium.

“Modality, Essence, and Explanation,” Workshop on Modal Modelling in Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (to be confirmed)

“What are modal concepts for?”, Mind and Language Seminar, New York University

“Metaphysics With and Without Ontology,” symposium contribution, Central APA

“Decision, Causality, and Pre-Determination,” departmental colloquium, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

“Ground and Paradox,” departmental colloquium, University of Hong Kong

“Decision, Causality, and Pre-Determination,” departmental colloquium, Monash University

“Decision, Causality, and Pre-Determination,” departmental colloquium, University of Melbourne

“Ground and Paradox,” University of Melbourne Logic Group

“Rational Action and Causality,” Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference

“Ground and Paradox,” LOGOS Workshop on Philosophical Methodology, University of Barcelona

“Ground and Paradox,” departmental colloquium, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

“Ground and Paradox,” CUNY workshop on logic and metaphysics

“Counterfactuals in Rational Deliberation,” keynote address, Conference of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Unit “What if?”, University of Konstanz, Germany

“Degrees of Necessity,” presentation in Simona Aimar and Alexander Kaiserman’s joint UCL/Oxford graduate seminar on modality and causation (via Skype)

Comments on Antonella Mallozzi, “Putting Modal Metaphysics First,” Pacific APA

“The Nature of Necessity,” presentation in Paul Horwich’s seminar on modality at NYU

“Causation and Practical Rationality,” colloquium talk, University of Louisville

“Counterfactuals and Causal Reasoning,” Linguistic Perspectives on Causation Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

“Possibility and the Method of Conceiving,” Conceivability and Modality Conference, Sapienza University, Rome

“Counterfactuals and Causal Reasoning,” Belgrade Conferences on Conditionals, University of Belgrade

Comments on Yael Loewenstein, “Reverse Sobel Sequence and Why Most Counterfactuals Are Not True,” Pacific APA

Comments on Brett Sherman, “Modal Grounds and Gradability,” Central APA

“Ground and Paradox,” Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University

“Rational Decision and Counterfactuals” (tentative title), Belgrade Conference on Conditionals

“Replies to Berstein, Stalnaker, and Sullivan,” book symposium on Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Pacific Convention of the American Philosophical Association

“Practical Rationality, Causation, and Hypothetical Reasoning” (tentative title), Causation and Cognition, joint conference of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Princeton University

Comments on Marc Lange, “Putting Explanation Back Into ‘Inference to the Best Explanation’”

“Newcomb's Problem,” Behrman Faculty Fellows discussion group, Humanities Council, Princeton University

“Worlds,” Brown University, proseminar

“Modality and Explanation,” Columbia University, seminar on modality and causation

“Reply to Manley and Rayo,” book symposium on Modality and Explanatory Reasoning, Princeton University

“The Layers of the Universe,” Corridor Workshop Group

“Chance and the Structure of Modal Space,” Corridor Workshop Group

“De Re Modality and De Re Chance,” Chambers Conference on Necessity, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

“Modal Controversies and the Philosophy of Chance,” Oxford University

“Perverse, Yet Strangely Appealing: The Tractarian Theory of Language,”
Paper Tigers, Princeton University

“Essence, Laws, and Explanation,” Corridor Workshop Group

“Essence, Laws, and Explanation,” University of Colorado

“Are All Fundamental Facts Purely Qualitative?”, Symposium Paper,
Central APA

“Are All Fundamental Facts Qualitative?”, University of Leeds

“Are All Fundamental Facts Purely Qualitative?”, University of Stirling

“Are All Fundamental Facts Purely Qualitative?”, University of Manchester

“Are All Fundamental Facts Purely Qualitative?”, University of Geneva

“Essence, Laws, and Explanation,” Paper Tigers, Princeton University

“Worlds,” Corridor Workshop Group

“Is Fundamental Reality Purely Qualitative?”, Keynote Address,
Rocky Mountains Philosophy Conference

Comments on Michael Strevens, “Why Care about Counterfactual Support?”, Chapel Hill Philosophy Colloquium

“In Defense of Haecceitism,” Corridor Workshop Group

“Newcomb's Problem,” Princeton Philosophical Society

“Causation: Determination and Difference-Making,” Oxford University

Comments on Sara Bernstein, “Over-Determination Underdetermined,”
Eastern APA

“Objectivity and Knowledge,” Emerging Scholars Prize Lecture,
Humanities Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Comments on Ted Sider, Writing the Book of the World, Colorado Conference on Ontological Dependence

“Causation: Necessitation and Difference-Making,” Arizona Ontology Conference

“Causation: Nomic Sufficiency and Difference-Making,” Princeton University

“Causation: Nomic Sufficiency and Difference-Making,”
Australian National University, Canberra

“Haecceitism and Counterfactuals,” Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference

“Haecceitism and Counterfactuals,” University of Sydney

“Haecceitism and Counterfactuals,” University of Auckland, New Zealand

“Causation: Necessitation and Difference-Making,” Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

“Causation: Necessitation and Difference-Making,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Causation: Necessitation and Difference-Making,” University of Notre Dame

“Causation: Necessitation and Difference-Making,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Faculty Colloquium

“The Similarity Account of Counterfactuals,” Eastern APA

Comments on Agustín Rayo, “On Specifying Content,” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference

“The Similarity Account of Counterfactuals,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy

Comments on Peter Hanks and Brendan O’Sullivan, “Reflexive Content and the Modal Argument,” Central APA

“Counterfactuals, Causation and Explanation,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“Counterfactuals, Causation and Explanation,” University of Pittsburgh

“Counterfactuals, Causation and Explanation,” Cornell University

“Counterfactuals, Causation and Explanation,” University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor

PHI 523 (Princeton): The Metaphysical Basis of Logic, graduate research seminar on metaphysical issues in logic with special emphasis on the paradoxes

PHI 599 (Princeton): Dissertation Seminar, weekly seminar that gives graduate students a forum to present their dissertation work

PHI 523 (Princeton): Decision Theory , a graduate-level survey of selected topics in recent work in decision theory

PHI 345 (Princeton): Philosophy of Humor, an undergraduate seminar on the philosophy of humor

PHI 318 (Princeton): Metaphysics, upper-level undergraduate introduction to metaphysics

PHI 540 (Princeton): Metaphysics, graduate research seminar on the use of formal methods in philosophy, with Hans Halvorson

PHI 981 (Princeton): Junior Seminar: Newcomb's Problem, a small writing-intensive seminar for juniors

PHI 339 (Princeton): Philosophical Analysis Since 1950, upper-level introduction to the history of post-war analytic philosophy

PHI 540 (Princeton): Chance and Causation, graduate research seminar on chance and causartion, with Adam Elga

PHI 318 (Princeton): Metaphysics, upper-level undergraduate introduction to metaphysics

PHI 339 (Princeton): Philosophical Analysis Since 1950, upper-level introduction to the history of post-war analytic philosophy

PHI 540 (Princeton): The Metaphysical Basis of Logic, graduate research seminar on metaphysical issues in logic with special emphasis on the paradoxes

PHI 339 (Princeton): Philosophical Analysis Since 1950, upper-level introduction to the history of post-war analytic philosophy

PHI 318 (Princeton): Metaphysics, upper-level undergraduate introduction to metaphysics

PHI 599 (Princeton): Dissertation Seminar, weekly seminar that gives graduate students a forum to present their dissertation work

PHI 318 (Princeton): Metaphysics, upper-level undergraduate introduction to metaphysics

PHI 540 (Princeton): Metaphysics, Logic, and the One, graduate research seminar on the intersection of metaphysics and logic and on monism, with Shamik Dasgupta

PHI 981 (Princeton): Junior Seminar: Newcomb's Problem, a small writing-intensive seminar for juniors

PHI 339 (Princeton): Philosophical Analysis Since 1950, upper-level introduction to the history of analytic philosophy since 1950

PHI 203 (Princeton): Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology, introduction to metaphysics and epistemology for freshmen and sophomores

PHI 540 (Princeton): Grounding and Essence, graduate research seminar on recent work on grounding and essence and its metaphilosophical implications

PHI 203 (Princeton): Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology, introduction to M & E for freshmen and sophomores

PHI 343 (Princeton): Wittgenstein, upper-level introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy

PHI 599 (Princeton): Dissertation Seminar, weekly seminar that gives graduate students a forum to present their dissertation work

PHI 540 (Princeton): Hyperintensional Metaphysics, graduate research seminar on hyperintensional concepts in metaphysics, with Shamik Dasgupta

PHI 737 (Princeton): First Year Seminar: Key Papers of Analytic Philosophy, introductory philosophy course for first-year graduate students, with Adam Elga

PHI 313 (Princeton): Theory of Knowledge, upper-level undergraduate introduction to epistemology

PHI 540 (Princeton): Possible Worlds, graduate research seminar on modality

PHI 318 (Princeton): Metaphysics, upper-level undergraduate introduction to metaphysics

PHI 981 (Princeton): Junior Seminar: The Metaphysics of Time, a small writing-intensive seminar for juniors

Graduate Student Modality Discussion Group

PHIL 345 (Michigan): Language and Mind, upper-level undergraduate introduction to epistemology and metaphysics

PHIL 607 (Michigan): Metaphysics, research seminar on causation, explanation and counterfactual conditionals

PHIL 297 (Michigan): Honors Introduction to Philosophy, introduction to philosophy for students in the Michigan honors program

PHIL 597 (Michigan): Proseminar, survey course in core areas for first-year graduate students, with Ian Proops

PHIL 383 (Michigan): Knowledge and Reality, upper-level undergraduate introduction to epistemology and metaphysics

PHIL 297 (Michigan): Honors Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 607 (Michigan): Metaphysics, research seminar on the metaphysics of modality

Authored tenure and other promotion letters

Referee for numerous journals and conferences

Involved in all parts of hiring for junior and senior positions in numer-ous years, Michigan and Princeton

Involved in all parts of graduate admissions in numerous years, Michi-gan and Princeton

Acting Director of the Program in Linguistics

Executive Committee, Program in Linguistics, Princeton

Chair, Climate and Inclusion Committee, Philosophy Department, Princeton

Equal Opportunities Officer, Philosophy Department, Princeton

Chair, Placement Committee, Philosophy Department, Princeton

Chair of Colloquium Committee in numerous years, Philosophy Department, Princeton

Referee for ACLS Fellowship Program

Referee for Princeton Society of Fellows

Panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship competition (reviewing fellowship applications)

Course Allocation Committee, Philosophy Department, Princeton

Panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship competition (reviewing fellowship applications)

Co-organizer (with Elizabeth Harman), Corridor Workshop Group

Organizer, conference on modality of the Collaborative Research Network in Analytic Philosophy (CRNAP)

International Network Committee, Philosophy Department, Princeton

Honors Students Advisor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan

Chair, Undergraduate Advising Committee, Department of Philosophy, Michigan

Undergraduate Advising Committee, Department of Philosophy, Michigan

Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Philosophy, Michigan

Faculty Liaison for Meteorite, the Michigan undergraduate philosophy journal

Undergraduate Advising Committee, Department of Philosophy, Michigan