Here are most of my philosophical works. Each has a separate page with things where you can download copies, see full citations, and so on.
Many of the papers are also available at Scholars Archive, the UAlbany institutional archive.
Feedback is always welcome.
- The ethics of cover songs, with Evan Malone
- Scurvy and the ontology of natural kinds
- Background theories and total science (2005)
- Hormone research as an exemplar of underdetermination (2005)
- The Identical Rivals Response to underdetermination, with Greg Frost-Arnold (2010)
- Peirce: Underdetermination, agnosticism, and related mistakes (2005)
- Reckoning the shape of everything (2005)
- Underdetermination and the claims of science (2003)
- Underdetermination and the Problem of Identical Rivals (2003)
- Drakes, seadevils, and similarity fetishism (2011)
- Epistemic categories and causal kinds (2014)
- How to be a realist about natural kinds (2018)
- John Stuart Mill on taxonomy and natural kinds (2015)
- No grist for Mill on natural kinds (2014)
- NK≠HPC (2014)
- Scientific enquiry and natural kinds: From planets to mallards (2012)
- Taxonomy, ontology, and natural kinds (2018)
- Cautious realism and middle range ontology (2018)
- Inductions, red herrings, and the best explanation for the mixed record of science (2010)
- Miracles, trust, and ennui in Barnes' Predictivism (2011)
- Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy, with Craig Callender (2004)
- Success, truth, and the Galilean Strategy (2003)
- What's new about the New Induction? (2006)
- Inductive Risk, Science, and Values: a reply to MacGillivray, with Dan Hicks and Jessey Wright (2020)
- The scope of inductive risk (2022)
- Science and rationality for one and all (2014)
- Science, values, and the priority of evidence (2018)
- What scientists know is not a function of what scientists know (2013)
- What kind of is-ought gap is there and what kind ought there be? with Jon Mandle (2017)
- William James on risk, efficacy, and evidentialism (2022)
- A Philosophy of Cover Songs (2022)
- Appreciating covers, with Cristyn Magnus, Christy Mag Uidhir, and Ron McClamrock (2022)
- Judging covers, with Cristyn Magnus and Christy Mag Uidhir (2013)
- Kind of Borrowed, Kind of Blue (2016)
- Are digital images allographic? with Jason D'Cruz (2014)
- Art concept pluralism, with Christy Mag Uidhir (2011)
- Art concept pluralism undermines the definitional project, with Christy Mag Uidhir (2022)
- Historical individuals like Anas platyrhynchos and 'Classical Gas' (2013)
- Mag Uidhir on Performance (2008)
- Preserving the autographic/allographic distinction, with Jason D'Cruz (2015)
- That some of Sol Lewitt's later wall drawings aren't wall drawings (2018)
- Early response to false claims in Wikipedia (2008)
- Epistemology and the Wikipedia (2006)
- On trusting Wikipedia (2009)
- Reality, sex, and cyberspace (2000)
- Reliability on the crowded net (2001)
- Demonstrative induction and the skeleton of inference (2008)
- Distributed cognition and the task of science (2007)
- Friends with benefits! Distributed cognition hooks up cognitive and social conceptions of science, with Ron McClamrock (2014)
- Philosophy of science in the twenty-first century (2013)
- The price of insisting that quantum mechanics is complete (2004)
- State of the field: Why novel prediction matters, with Heather Douglas (2013)
- Evidential Nihilism (2020)
- Williamson on Knowledge and Psychological Explanation, with Jonathan Cohen (2003)
- forall x (2005)
- Correspondence with Putnam on natural kinds (2010-11)
- How sitting in a café might be metaphysically as problematic as time travel (2004)
- Tricky cases and Teller's programme (2005)
- What SPECIES can teach us about THEORY (2007)
- Regarding scientific significance (2008)
- The Epistemology of Inclusiveness (2011)
- Emoji art: The aesthetics of 💩 (2018)
