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Books (Single Author)

The Temporal Asymmetry of Causation. MS. Submitted to Elements in the Philosophy of Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Examines recent empirical attempts to explain why causes come before their effects, including how to reconcile statistical-mechanical, agency and fork asymmetry accounts.

Abstract

Edited Volumes (Co-authored)

Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Alison Fernandes (eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology. 2022. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Interdisciplinary edited collection on our different attitudes towards the past and future.

Journal Articles (Single Author)

How to Explain the Direction of Time. 2022. Synthese. 200, 389.
Online Article (Open Access)
Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry. 2022. Philosophies. 7(2): 43
Online Article (Open Access)   Abstract
Time Travel and Counterfactual Asymmetry 2021. Synthese. 198: 1983–2001.
Preprint    Online Article.   Abstract
Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel 2020. Philosophical Studies. 177: 89–108.
Preprint    Online Article    Abstract
Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics? 2019. Synthese. 198(5): 3999−4016.
Preprint    Online Article    Abstract
A Deliberative Approach to Causation 2017 . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 95(3): 686–708.
Preprint    Online Article    Abstract
Varieties of Epistemic Freedom 2016, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 94(4): 736-751.
Preprint    Online Article    Abstract

Journal Articles (Co-authored)
Towards an account of intuitive time. Ruth Lee, Jack Shardlow, Christoph Hoerl, Patrick A. O'Connor, Alison Fernandes, Teresa McCormack, Forth. Cognitive Science. Online Article
Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: Past-Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods. Ruth Lee, Christoph Hoerl, Patrick Burns, Alison S. Fernandes, Patrick A. O’Connor, & Teresa McCormack. 2020. Cognitive Science. 44 (9). Online Article
Exploring people's beliefs about the experience of time. Jack Shardlow; Ruth Lee; Christoph Hoerl; Teresa McCormack; Alison S. Fernandes; Patrick Burns. Forth. Synthese. 198 (11): 10709–10731 Online Article

Articles in Edited Volumes

Naturalism, Functionalism and Chance: Not a Best Fit for the Humean. Forth. in Michael Hicks, Siegrfied Jaag and Christian Loew (eds.) Humean Laws for Human Agents, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
PhilSci Archive
Caring for Our Future Selves 2022. in Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Alison Fernandes (eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Time, Flies, and Why We Can't Control the Past  Forth, in Barry Loewer, Eric Winsberg and Brad Weslake (eds.) Time's Arrows and the Probability Structure of the World, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Preprint    PhilSci Archive (Permanent Link)    Abstract

Other Articles

Causation: Further Themes. 2018. Routledge Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Online Article    Abstract
A Deliberative Account of Causation: How the Evidence of Deliberating Agents Accounts for Causation and its Temporal Direction
PhD Dissertation, Columbia University (2016)
Available at Academic Commons to download      Short Abstract     Long Abstract


In Progress

Articles
'Evidence Based Science' - Uses the evidential role of laws to give accounts of chance, counterfactuals, and how we reason about the past.