Areas of Specialization
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
- Philosophy of Language
Books
- Possibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contemporary Metaphysics: An Introduction. Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1997.
- Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 2009.
Selected Essays
- "Dualizing Materialism", in The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, ed. R. Koons and G. Bealer, Oxford University Press: 2010.
- "Analyzing Modality", Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 3 (2007): 99-139.
- "On Quine's Rejection of Intensional Entities" Midwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (2004): 209-225
- "Thinking About Things." Philosophical Perspectives 15 (2001): 1-15.
- "Propositions and the Objects of Thought." Philosophical Studies 104 (2001): 47-62.
- "Actualism and Iterated Modalities." Philosophical Studies 84 (1996): 109-125.
- "The Myth of Identity Conditions." Philosophical Perspectives 10 (1996): 243-356
- "Proper Names". Philosophical Perspectives 7 (1993) pp. 487-504
- "Could This Be Magic?" Philosophical Review 100 (1991): 247-267.
- "Straight Talk About Sets." Philosophical Topics 89 (1989): 91-107.
- "Problems with Possible Worlds" in Philosophical Analysis. Ed. David F. Austin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1988. pp. 299-322.
- "On Properties and Property Theory" in Properties, Types and Meaning, Vol. I: Foundational Issues. Ed. Gennaro Chierchia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. pp. 159-175.
Selected Invited Lectures
- University of Chicago
- MIT
- Dartmouth College
- Brown University
- Amherst College
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Davis
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Georgetown University
- Arizona State University
- Syracuse University