Research

I think about things that might have been and never were. As a result, I tend to write about things like possibility, nonexistence, fiction, the imagination, and make-believe. I’m currently writing a book bringing together my work on fictionality. I’m also working on bunch of papers, including stuff on ontological simplicity, the limits of questions, interactive art, and the aims of inquiry.

Selected publications (for a full list see my CV)

Metaphysics (mainly modality, fictionalisms, ontology, metaontology, indeterminacy)

Ersatz Counterparts. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.
Noneism, Ontology, and Fundamentality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (with Tatjana von Solodkoff).
Towards Being. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vague Existence. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.
Worldmates and Internal Relatedness. Philosophical Studies.
Critical Study of A Companion to Quine. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Counterparts. Philosophy Compass.
Th e Things That Aren’t Actually There. Philosophical Studies.
A Yablovian Dilemma. Thought.
Fictionalist Strategies in Metaphysics. Routledge Companion to Metametaphysics (with Lukas Skiba)
Fictionalism and Incompleteness. Nous.
Fictionalism and Inferential Safety. Analysis.
Why Modal Fictionalism is not Self-Defeating. Philosophical Studies.
Is Modal Fictionalism Artificial?. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Aesthetics (mainly fiction, depiction, photography, the imagination)

Identity in Fiction. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Projecting Fiction. The Aesthetics of Fiction.
The Cognitive Role of Fictionality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (with Robbie Williams).
To Have and To Hold. Philosophical Issues (with Tatjana von Solodkoff).
Interactivity, Fictionality and Incompleteness. The Aesthetics of Videogames (with Nathan Wildman).
Fictionality and Photography. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Walton on Fictionality. Philosophy Compass.
Truth in Fiction. Philosophy Compass.