Profile

I currently teach courses on metaphysics, epistemology and history of philosophy. I previously worked in Glasgow and Leeds.

Research

My research focuses on metaphysics (specifically persistence, composition, time travel, the nature of spacetime, supersubstantivalism, metametaphysics, truthmaking and ontology). I also have research interests in the philosophy of religion (specifically Christian metaphysics and divine hiddenness).

Select Publications

• 'Undermining Motivations for Universalism', Noûs (forthcoming)
• 'The Metaphysics of Groups', Philosophical Studies (forthcoming)
• 'Mereological Explanation and Time Travel', Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
• 'Endurantism and Perdurantism', Continuum Companion to Metaphysics (invited submission, to be completed autumn 2009).
• Key Concepts in Metaphysics, co-authored with Helen Beebee and Philip Goff (under contract with Routledge, to be completed 2010)
• 'Composition, Persistence and Identity', in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics ed. Le Poidevin, Simons, McGonigal and Cameron (2009): 296-309.
• 'Universalism, Vagueness and Supersubstantivalism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009): 35-42..
• 'Endurantism and Timeless Worlds', Analysis 67 (2007): 140-7 (co-authored with Joseph Melia).
• 'A Mereological Challenge to Endurantism', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007): 633-40 (co-authored with Jon Robson).