This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage
developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to …

Higher‐order metaphysicians take facts to be higher‐order beings, ie, entities in the range of
irreducibly higher‐order quantifiers. In this paper, I investigate the impact of this conception …

There has been in recent years a huge surge of interest in the so-called extended Wigner's
friend scenario (EWFS). In short, a series of theorems (with some variation in detail) puts …

I examine the relation between naturalistically motivated and other critiques of grounding
and similar critiques of the contrast between A-and B-theoretic views of time. I argue that …

The starting point of this paper is the thought that the phenomenal appearances that
accompany mental states are somehow only there, or only real, from the standpoint of the …

This paper explores taste fragmentalism, a novel approach to matters of taste and faultless
disagreement. The view is inspired by Kit Fine's fragmentalism about time, according to …

Humans are complex systems,'macro-entities', whose existence, behaviour and
consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the …

Giovanni Merlo has argued that a currently popular way to interpret Kit Fine's fragmentalism
about tensed facts (which he calls 'unstructured fragmentalism') is threatened by the problem …

Metaphysicians who are aware of modern physics usually follow Putnam (1967) in arguing
that Special Theory of Relativity is incompatible with the view that what exists is only what …

Fragmentalism allows incompatible facts to constitute reality in an absolute manner,
provided that they fail to obtain together. In recent years, the view has been extensively …