"Obsessive-Compulsive Akrasia." Mind & Language 35.4 (2020): 475-92. Version of Record. 

1. • Abstract: Epistemic akrasia is the phenomenon of voluntarily believing what you think you shouldn’t. Whether epistemic akrasia is possible is a matter of controversy. I argue that at least some people who suffer from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder are genuinely epistemically akratic. I advance an account of epistemic akrasia that explains the clinical data and provides broader insight into the nature of doxastic attitude-formation. 

   • Note: M&L embargoes post-prints, but an extended version of this paper appears in my dissertation. 

"Imaginative Transportation." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96.4 (2018): 683-96. Version of Record. Post-print.

1. • Abstract: Actors, undercover investigators, and readers of fiction sometimes report "losing themselves" in the characters they imitate or read about. They speak of "taking on" or "assuming" the beliefs, thoughts, and feelings of someone else. I offer an account of this strange but familiar phenomenon—what I call imaginative transportation.

   • Note: After publishing this paper, I came across an excellent master's thesis from Scott A. Harman (2010), whose attentional account of method acting shares much in common with my own.  I discuss Harman (2010) and Stanislavski's (1936) accounts in an extended version of this paper, which appears in my dissertation.

"A New Statistical Solution to the Generality Problem." Episteme 15.2 (2018): 228-44. Version of Record. Post-print.

1. • Abstract: The Generality Problem is widely recognized to be a serious problem for reliabilist theories of justification. James R. Beebe’s (2004) Statistical Solution is one of only a handful of attempted solutions that has garnered serious attention in the literature. In their recent response to Beebe, Julien Dutant and Erik J. Olsson (2013) successfully refute Beebe’s Statistical Solution. This paper presents a New Statistical Solution that countenances Dutant and Olsson’s objections, dodges the serious problems that trouble rival solutions, and retains the theoretical virtues that made Beebe’s solution so attractive in the first place. There indeed exists a principled, rigorous, conceptually sparse, and plausible solution to the Generality Problem: it is the New Statistical Solution.

   • Note: Jeffrey Tolly recently published a challenging response to my paper. While I belief the contours of my account survive the attempted refutation, I am indebted to Tolly for identifying genuine problems and engaging charitably with my work.

   • Erratum: Note 19 misattributes an idea.  I intended to credit Joshua Tarzia.

"Aristotle as a Nonclassical Trope Theorist" (with Shane Maxwell Wilkins). History of Philosophy Quarterly 35.2 (2018): 117-36. Version of Record. Post-Print.

1. • Abstract: A trope is an abstract particular. Trope theorists maintain that tropes exist and argue that they can solve important philosophical problems, such as explaining the nature of properties. While many contemporary interpreters of Aristotle read him as a trope theorist, few commentators distinguish different versions of trope theory. Which, of any, of these versions did Aristotle hold? Classical trope theorists say that individuals just are bundles of tropes. This essay offers a reading of Categories 2-5 and Metaphysics VII-VIII that aligns Aristotle's view with nonclassical trope theory, according to which objects are more than just bundles of tropes.

"Luck and Significance" (with Nathan Ballantyne). Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, edited by Ian M. Church and Robert Hartman (Oxford: Routledge, 2019): 160-70. Version of Record. Post-print.