PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. See web page.
2. Analysis in Vector Spaces. With Mustafa Akcoglu and Dzung Ha. Hoboken: John Wylie & Sons, 2009. See web page.
3. Solutions Manual to Accompany Analysis in Vector Spaces. With Mustafa Akcoglu and Dzung Ha. Hoboken: John Wylie & Sons, 2009.
Articles
1. “Taking Stock of Infinite Value: Pascal's Wager and Relative Utilities,” Synthese 154 (2007), 5-52.
2. “Paradox and Probability,” in A. Irvine and J.
Russell (eds.), In the Agora: The
Public Face of Canadian Philosophy (
3. “The De Finetti Lottery and Equiprobability,” in K. Peacock and A. Irvine (eds.), Mistakes
of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods (
4. “Countable Additivity and the de Finetti lottery,”British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (2004), 301-321.
5. “Probability and Symmetry,” with Richard Johns, Philosophy of Science 68 (Proceedings) (2001), S109-S122.
6. “Conditional
obligation, deontic paradoxes, and stit,” in N. Belnap, M. Perloff and M. Xu (eds.), Facing the Future (
7. “Monstrous Neighbours or Curious Coincidence: Aristotle on boundaries and contact,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (2001), 1-16.
8. “Moral preference, contrary-to-duty obligation and defeasible oughts,” in P. McNamara and H. Prakken (eds.), Norms, Logics and Information Systems: New Studies in Deontic Logic and Computer Science (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1999), 93-108.
9. “No one knows the date or the hour: an unorthodox application of Rev. Bayes' Theorem”, with Christopher Hitchcock, Philosophy of Science 66 (Proceedings) (1999), S339-S353.
10. “The Shooting-Room Paradox and Conditionalizing on 'Measurably Challenged' Sets,” with Christopher Hitchcock; Synthese 118 (1999), 403-437.
11. “Second Guessing Second Nature,” with Steven Savitt, Analysis 58, #4 (October 1998), 252-263.
12. “Marcus and
the Problem of Nested Deontic Modalities,” with Nuel Belnap, in W. Sinnott-Armstrong, D. Raffman and
N. Asher (eds.), Modality, Morality and
Belief (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995), 174-197. Reprinted with modifications in N. Belnap, M. Perloff and M. Xu (eds.), Facing the Future (
13. “Conditional Obligation, Deontic Paradoxes, and the Logic of Agency,” Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 9 (1993), 1-23.
14. “Substantial Form and the Nature of Individual Substance,” Studia Leibnitiana 25, #1 (1993), 43-54.
Conference Presentations
1. “Thresholds for Plausible Analogical Arguments,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Analogy (Analogy-2009), eds. B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak and D. Gentner, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009.
2. “Moral preference, contrary-to-duty obligation and defeasible oughts,” DEON '98 (International Workshop on Deontic Logic), Bologna, 1998.
3. “Conditional Obligation and the Logic of Agency,” DEON '91 (First International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science), Amsterdam, 1992.
1. Theodore L. Brown, Making Truth: Metaphor in Science, in Philosophy of Science 71 (October 2004), 610-14.
2. Barbara Maria Stafford, Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting, in Philosophy of Science 68 (4), 580-84.
3. John Horty, Agency and Deontic Logic, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (January 2002).
4. Domenico Costantini and Maria Carla Galavotti (eds.), Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 18 (1998), 321-3.