Work in Progress

• “The Once Present and the Now Past”

  • An argument that tensers must make reference to past facts which, by their own lights, are no longer real.

Papers

• “The Way Things Were” (with Ben Caplan), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (81.1) 2010: 24–39.

  • An argument against the explanatory relevance of presently existing truthmakers for propositions about the past.

• “The Early Arabic Liar” (with Ahmed Alwishah), Vivarium (47:1) 2009: 97–127.

  • An analysis of the earliest discussions of the Liar Paradox in the Medieval Arabic tradition, including the earliest known text in any tradition to blame the paradox on self-reference. English translations of the main texts are included.

Dissertation

• Being and Time: The Metaphysics of Past and Future in a Dynamic World, UCLA, 2005

  • A dissertation that tries to make sense of the view that the fundamental metaphysical facts—the facts about what there is, and what properties things instantiate—are tensed or dynamic facts.