Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State University (1998)
Publications
Articles
- “Causation in Classical Mechanics,” forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics.
- “Does Kant Have a Pre-Newtonian Picture of Force in the Balance Argument? An account of how the balance argument works,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.
- “Elementary Classical Mechanics and the Principle of the Composition of Causes,” Synthese, 173 (3): 353-373, 2010.
- “Symmetries and the Explanation of Conservation Laws in the Light of the Inverse Problem in Lagrangian Mechanics,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 39: 325-345, 2008.
- “Causation and its Relation to ‘Causal Laws’,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 58 (4): 659-688, 2007.
- “Continuous Bodies, Impenetrability, and Contact Interactions: The View from the Applied Mathematics of Continuum Physics,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 58 (3): 503-538, 2007.
- “Special Cases, Composition of Causes, and the Complexity of Nature,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 38: 80-96, 2007.
- “Are Instantaneous Velocities Real and Really Instantaneous? An Argument for the Affirmative,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 34: 261-280, 2003.
- with John Earman and John Roberts, “Ceteris Paribus Lost ,” Erkenntnis, 57: 281-301, 2002.
- “Violated Laws, Ceteris Paribus Clauses, and Capacities,” Synthese, 130 (2): 235-264, 2002.
- “Models and the Unity of Classical Physics: Nancy Cartwright’s Dappled World,” Philosophy of Science, 68: 456-475, 2001.
- “Resolving Russell’s Anti-Realism About Causation,” The Monist, 83(2): 274-295, April 2000.