Office
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Biography
Date of birth: 24 November 1944
Selected publications
Book
- Events: A Metaphysical Study (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).
Articles
- "Grice's Intentions", Philosophical Studies 25:3 (1974), 207-212, co-authored with G.C. Stine
- "A Note on Level-Generation and the Time of a Killing", Philosophical Studies 26:2 (1974), 151-152
- "Events, Changes, and the Non-extensionality of 'Become'", Philosophical Studies 28:2 (1975), 131-136
- "Chisholm and Davidson on Events and Counterfactuals", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VII (1977), 515-522
- "Actions, Results, and the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VIII (1978), 341-354
- "Relational Change and Relational Changes", Philosophical Studies 34:1 (1978), 63-79
- "The Extensionality of Causal Contexts: Comments on Rosenberg and Martin", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol IV (1979), 409-415
- "Events", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. IX, No. 3 (September, 1979), 425-460
- "Events and Their Subjects", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62:2 (April, 1981), 138-147
- "Events and the Essentiality of Time", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 1 (March, 1982), 1-17
- "How Not To Flip The Prowler: Transitive Verbs of Action and the Identity of Actions," Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), E. LePore and B. McLaughlin (eds), 268-281
- "'Unless', 'Until', and the Time of a Killing", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70:2 (June, 1989), 135-154
- "Causes, Enablers, and the Counterfactual Analysis", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 59 (1990), 195-211
- "Events, Counterfactuals, and Speed", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 2 (June, 1992), 187-197
- "Causes and Enablers: A Reply to Mackie", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 65 (1992), 319-322
- "How Not to Flip the Switch with the Floodlight: Causative-Inchoative, the Instrumental 'With', and the Identity of Actions", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (March, 1992), 31-43, co-authored with Patrick Francken
- "The Doctrine of Temporal Parts and the 'No-Change' Objection", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LIV, No. 2 (June, 1994), 365-372
- "Sooner or Later", Noûs, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1995), 343-359.
- "Delaying, Preventing, and Disenabling", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 24:3-4 (December, 1995), 433-447
- "Ontologies of Events", in Contemporary Readings in the Foundation of Metaphysics (Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998), S. Laurence and C.A. Macdonald, eds., 277-294 - "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Perduring Entities", Philosophia:
Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2 (March, 1999) - "The Cambridge Solution to the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of
Israel, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2 (October, 2003), pp. 93-106 - "The Lowe Road to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", Philosophical Studies 112: 2 (January, 2003), pp. 163-185
- "Scope Fallacies and the 'Decisive Objection' Against Endurance", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 34:4 (December, 2006), pp. 441-452
- "Time for a Change: A Polemic Against the Presentism/Eternalism Debate", Time and Identity
(MIT Press, 2010), Campbell, O'Rourke, and Silverstein (eds.), pp.49-77 - "Causation by Absence: Omission Impossible" (co-authored with Tiffany Hudson), Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 48 (2020), pp. 625-641
Research Description
The metaphysics of events and change
The philosophy of time
Causation
The Nature and Possibility of Metaphysics