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Journal Articles (Single author)

Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics? Forth. Synthese
Preprint    Online Article    Abstract
Time Travel and Counterfactual Asymmetry Forth. Synthese
Preprint    Online Article.   Abstract
Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel 2020. Philosophical Studies. 177: 89–108.
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)
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. Forth. Cognitive Science.
Exploring people's beliefs about the experience of time. Jack Shardlow; Ruth Lee; Christoph Hoerl; Teresa McCormack; Alison S. Fernandes; Patrick Burns. Forth. Synthese. Online Article.

Other Articles

Time, Flies, and Why We Can't Control the Past  Forthcoming, 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
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
  • ‘Back to the Present’ (under review) - Uses cases of time travel to argue against methods of eavluating counterfactuals that hold the present 'fixed'
  • ‘Caring for Our Future Selves’ (under review), invited submission, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Alison Fernandes (eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology. - Argues for a personal-identity based causal explanation of attitude asymmetries. 
  • ‘Modality Within Reason’, invited submission, Michael Hicks, Siegrfied Jaag and Christian Loew (eds.) Humean Laws for Human Agents, Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Uses the evidential role of laws s to give accounts of chance, counterfactuals, and how we reason about the past.
  • 'The Direction of Time and its Expression in Records', invited submission, special issue of Synthese - Defends an entropy-based explanation of temporal asymmetries using feautres of Reichenbach's account.
  • 'What Play the Role of Chance?' - Argues against Humean reductions of chance by considering our justification for chance-based reasoning.
Books
  • The Temporal Asymmetry of Causation, Cambridge Elements in Philosophy of Physics, Cambridge University Press. (under contract) - Critically examines recent explanations of the temporal asymmetry of causation.
  • Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Alison Fernandes (eds.) Temporal Asymmetries in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford University Press. (under contract) - Interdisciplinary edited collection on our different attitudes towards the past and future.