Here are some of my philosophical papers, available for download. Most are available as PDFs, which can be read with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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Forthcoming

• What scientists know is not a function of what scientists know, forthcoming in Philosophy of Science
• Judging covers, with Cristyn Magnus and Christy Mag Uidhir, forthcoming in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• State of the field: Why novel prediction matters, with Heather Douglas, forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
• No grist for Mill on natural kinds, forthcoming in Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy

Past work

Philosophy of science

• Background theories and total science (2005)
• Demonstrative induction and the skeleton of inference (2008)
• Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science (2007)
• Drakes, Seadevils, and Similarity Fetishism (2011)
• Hormone Research as an Exemplar of Underdetermination (2005)
• The Identical Rivals Response to Underdetermination (2010, with Greg Frost-Arnold)
• Inductions, red herrings, and the best explanation for the mixed record of science (2010)
• Miracles, trust, and ennui in Barnes' Predictivism (2011)
• The price of insisting that quantum mechanics is complete (2004)
• Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy (2004, with Craig Callender)
• Reckoning the Shape of Everything (2005)
• Success, Truth, and the Galilean Strategy (2003)
• Underdetermination and the Claims of Science (2003)
• Underdetermination and the Problem of Identical Rivals (2003)
• What's new about the New Induction? (2006)

History of philosophy

• Peirce: Underdetermination, agnosticism, and related mistakes (2005)
• Reid's defense of common sense (2008)
• Reid's dilemma and the uses of pragmatism (2004)

Technology and social epistemology

• Epistemology and the Wikipedia (2006)
• Early response to false claims in Wikipedia (2008)
• On trusting Wikipedia (2009)
• Reality, Sex, and Cyberspace (2000)
• Reliability on the Crowded Net (2001)

Philosophy of music, Aesthetics

• Art Concept Pluralism (2011, with Christopher Mag Uidhir)
• Mag Uidhir on Performance (2008)
• Historical individuals like Anas platyrhynchos and 'Classical Gas' (2013)

Other published work

• forall x (2005)
• Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation (2003, with Jonathan Cohen)

Scraps

• What SPECIES can teach us about THEORY (2007-2012)
• The Epistemology of Inclusiveness (or) Particular Epistemic Communities Are Always a Mess (2011)
• Regarding scientific significance (2008)
• How sitting in a café might be metaphysically as problematic as time travel (2004-2006)
• Tricky cases and Teller's programme (2005)

Here are links to books that I have coedited, to which I have contributed, or that I've written.