Papers
- Reviving Reduction, forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- This paper addresses the debate around how best to eliminate surplus structure, specifically the sophistication and reduction strategies. I argue that extant definitions of reduction are overly restrictive and show that we can reduce Newtonian Gravitation Theory with respect to its scale symmetry once we rethink reduction
- This paper addresses the debate around how best to eliminate surplus structure, specifically the sophistication and reduction strategies. I argue that extant definitions of reduction are overly restrictive and show that we can reduce Newtonian Gravitation Theory with respect to its scale symmetry once we rethink reduction
- Logical Conventionalism and Deflationary Truth, currently under review
- I argue that pace Jared Warren, Logical Conventionalism and Deflationism about Truth are incompatible. In general, deflationism cannot handle truth ascriptions for languages that employ a logic different from our own
Please email me for drafts.