Publications

Articles

  • Luminous, Ergo Bright Beliefs (Episteme, forthcoming)

Penultimate Draft

  • Laws and Reasons Why (Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming)

https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12391

  • Husserl On Perception (Husserl-Studies, 2025)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10743-025-09367-1

  • Introduction to the Special Issue: Truth and Quantification into Sentence Position (with Max Kölbel) (Inquiry, 2025)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2025.2574342

  • Modal Perspectivalism (Synthese, 2025)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05146-9

  • Deflationism, Explanation and ‘because’ (Philosophical Studies, 2025)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-025-02351-7

  • Simpler Representational Ground (Erkenntnis, 2024)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-024-00875-8

  • Grounding: De Re and De Dicto (The Philosophical Quarterly, 2023)

In answer to a recent article by Martin Glazier, I explore the distinction between de re and de dicto readings of dependence claims formulated by means of grounding. Open access:

https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac054

  • No Choice for Incompatibilism (Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2023)

I examine one of van Inwagen’s formulations of the Consequence Argument once we understand the notion of an agent’s having a choice about a proposition in explanatory terms. Open access:

https://doi.org/10.5840/tht2022924

  • States-of-affairs and Fundamentality (with B. Schnieder) (Philosophia, 2023):

A discussion piece on Meinertsen’s book ‘Metaphysics of States-of-affairs’ (Springer, 2018).

Penultimate Draft
  • Explaining Coincidences (Synthese, 2021)

I criticize two recent accounts of coincidences and sketch an alternative that escapes the worries raised and is more general, since it might cover coincidences and non-coincidences involving non-physical facts. Open Access:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03445-5

  • Ingarden on the Varieties of Dependence (European Journal of Philosophy, 2021)

The four variants of dependence presented by Roman Ingarden in his Controversy over the Existence of the World (1964) are formulated precisely and compared to contemporary views. Open Access:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejop.12728

  • A Ground-theoretical Modal Definition of Essence (Analysis, 2022)

I present a definition of constitutive essentialist truths in terms of necessity and ontological dependence, where it is suggested that the latter notion should be understood in terms of ground. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anab004

Penultimate Draft
  • The Indeterminacy of the Distinction Between Objects and Ways of Being (Erkenntnis, 2020)

An argument based on so-called permutation arguments, championed by Quine, Putnam and Wallace, is presented to show that the truth-conditions of predicational sentences leave unsettled what should count as an object and as a way for an object to be. Open Access:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-020-00333-1

  • Grounding Grounds Necessity (Analysis, 2020)

A novel account of the grounds of the necessity of necessary truths is developed based on extensions of available ideas in the logic of ground. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anz083

Penultimate draft
  • The Ground of All Negative Existential Truths (Crítica, Special Issue, 2020)

I criticize the usual account of the grounds for negative existential truths in terms of a totality truth concerning every existent and defend an alternative account that makes use of a many-many grounding operator. Open Access:

http://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1177

  • How (not) to Argue Against Brute Fundamentalism (Dialectica, 2019)

I reply to Mckenzie’s ‘Against Brute Fundamentalism’ (2017), in which she tried to provide a counterexample to the thesis that fundamental truths cannot be explained. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-8361.12277

Penultimate Draft

Books

  • Reasons Why Not: On the Positive Grounds of Negative Truths. Springer/Metzler Verlag, 2019.

A revised version of my PhD Thesis. https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783476051493

Chapters