Books (Single Author)
The Temporal Asymmetry of Causation. Forthcoming. Elements in the Philosophy of Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Examines recent empirical accounts of why causes come before their effects, including statistical-mechanical, agency and fork asymmetry accounts, as well as how to reconcile these programs.
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Examines recent empirical accounts of why causes come before their effects, including statistical-mechanical, agency and fork asymmetry accounts, as well as how to reconcile these programs.
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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.
Interdisciplinary edited collection on our different attitudes towards the past and future.
Journal Articles (Single Author)
Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry. 2022. Philosophies. 7(2): 43
Online Article (Open Access) Abstract
Online Article (Open Access) Abstract
Time Travel and Counterfactual Asymmetry 2021. Synthese. 198: 1983–2001.
Preprint Online Article. Abstract
Preprint Online Article. Abstract
Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel 2020. Philosophical Studies. 177: 89–108.
Preprint Online Article Abstract
Preprint Online Article Abstract
Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics? 2019. Synthese. 198(5): 3999−4016.
Preprint Online Article Abstract
Preprint Online Article Abstract
A Deliberative Approach to Causation 2017 . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 95(3): 686–708.
Preprint Online Article Abstract
Preprint Online Article Abstract
Varieties of Epistemic Freedom 2016, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 94(4): 736-751.
Preprint Online Article Abstract
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
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
Preprint PhilSci Archive (Permanent Link) Abstract
Other Articles
Evidence Based Science. 2020. Presented online. Uses the evidential role of laws to give accounts of chance, counterfactuals, and how we reason about the past.
Online Article (PhilSci Archive)
Online Article (PhilSci Archive)
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
PhD Dissertation, Columbia University (2016)
Available at Academic Commons to download Short Abstract Long Abstract
In Progress
Books
What Science Does
- Accounts for the role of scientific relations for us, in prediction, explanation and control.
- Uses these roles to develop accounts of laws, chances, causation and counterfactuals.
- Explains temporal asymmetries in these relations using the resources of statistical mechanics.
- Develops a function-based method for the metaphysics of science that shows how metaphysics can be continuous with science.
Articles
Branchpoints and the Role of Counterfactuals - Argues that counterfactuals are used to reason about evidential structure, and uses this role to motivate a probabilistic method for their evaluation.