Prof Alastair Wilson
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Co-edited with Katie Robertson (Stirling)
Available soon in hardback and Open Access as a free eBook: Oxford University Press
Co-edited with Eleanor Knox (King's)
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Chapter preprints: list of chapters where the author has provided an online preprint.
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Preview: Table of Contents, Preface, p.1 of Introduction. Ch.6: "Anthropic Contingency".
Reviews: Matteo Morganti, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Baptiste Le Bihan, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; John Divers, Mind; Steven French, Metascience; Samuel Kimpton-Nye, The Philosophical Quarterly; Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo, Erkenntnis.
Contributors: David Z. Albert, Alexander Bird, Antony Eagle, Mathias Frisch, Alan Hájek, Toby Handfield, Carl Hoefer, Aidan Lyon, Christopher J. G. Meacham, L. A. Paul, Wolfgang Schwarz, David Wallace, Brad Weslake, Jessica Wilson, Alastair Wilson.
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Reviews: Nina Emery, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Craig Callender, Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Patricia Palacios, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
[click title for postprint pdf; click journal name for published version.]
"Metaphysical Emergence as Higher-Level Naturalness". In Rethinking Emergence, eds. Amanda Bryant and David Yates, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy" (with Katie Robertson), The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
"Four Grades of Modal Naturalism", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 124(2): 115-137, 2024.
"Explaining the Big Bang", in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (HAPP 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume) 2877:012079, 2024.
"Does Fine-Tuning Support the Existence of a Multiverse?", in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (HAPP 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume) 2877:012080, 2024.
"How Chance Explains" (with Michael Townsen Hicks), Noûs 57(2): 290-315, 2023.
"Necessity First", Argumenta 14, 2022.
"Fundamentality and Levels in Everettian Quantum Mechanics". In Quantum Mechanics and Fundamentality, ed. Valia Allori, Springer, 2022.
"Plenitude and Recombination". In Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis, eds. Helen Beebee and Anthony Fisher, Oxford University Press, 2022.
"Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics", Philosophy of Science 88(5): 1113-1124, 2021.
"Explanations of and in Time". In Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, eds. Chris Wüthrich, Baptiste Le Bihan and Nick Huggett, Oxford University Press, 2021.
"Classifying Dependencies". In The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space and Time, eds. David Glick, George Darby and Anna Marmodoro, Oxford University Press, 2020.
"A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World, by Michael Esfeld and Dirk-André Deckert" (Review), dialectica 74(3): 583-589, 2020.
"Causation, Explanation, and the Metaphysics of Aspect, by Bradford Skow" (Review), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019.
"Making Things Up, by Karen Bennett" (Review), Mind 128(510): 588-600, 2019.
"Metaphysical Causation", Noûs 52(4): 723-751, 2018.
"Grounding Entails Counterpossible Non-Triviality", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96(3): 716-728, 2018.
"The Quantum Revolution in Philosophy, by Richard Healey" (Review), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2018.
"Super-Humeanism: Insufficiently Naturalistic and Insufficiently Explanatory", Metascience 27(3): 427-431, 2018.
"Skow on the Passage of Time", Analysis 78(1): 117-128, 2018. Skow's reply.
"The Quantum Doomsday Argument", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68(2): 597-617, 2017.
"The Magic of Mirrors" (with Aaron Sloman), 2015.
"Chance and Context" (with Toby Handfield). In Chance and Temporal Asymmetry, Oxford University Press, 2014.
"Everettian Confirmation and Sleeping Beauty", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 65(3): 573-598, 2014. Bradley's reply.
"Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees of Belief, by Michael Titelbaum" (Review), in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science 65(4):887-891, 2014.
"Metaphysics and Science, eds. Mumford & Tugby" (Review), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014.
"Bradley on Chance, Admissibility, and the Mind of God", 2013. Discussion of Darren Bradley's reply to my "Everettian Confirmation and Sleeping Beauty".
"Objective Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64(4): 709-737, 2013.
"Schaffer on Laws of Nature", Philosophical Studies 164(3): 653-667, 2013.
"The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory according to the Everett Interpretation, by David Wallace" (Review), Metascience 22(3): 583-586, 2013.
"Mind, Meaning, and Reality, by Hugh Mellor" (Review), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91(3): 626-627, 2013.
"Everettian Quantum Mechanics Without Branching Time", Synthèse 188(1): 67-84, 2012.
"The Human Story Behind Everettian Quantum Mechanics" (Review), Metascience 21(1): 143-146, 2012.
"Macroscopic Ontology in Everettian Quantum Mechanics", Philosophical Quarterly 61(243): 363–382, 2011.
"Modality: Metaphysics, Logic and Epistemology, eds. Hale & Hoffman" (Review), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89(4): 755-756, 2011.
"Disagreement, Equal Weight, and Commutativity", Philosophical Studies 149(3): 321-326, 2010.
"Disposition-manifestations and Reference-frames", dialectica 63(4): 591-601, 2009.
"How Could the Big Bang Arise from Nothing?", The Conversation, Jan 2022.
-- Video version, produced by Ardit Bicaj.
"Explaining the Big Bang", HAPP Conference on History and Philosophy of Cosmology, University of Oxford, 2024.
"Does Fine-Tuning Support the Existence of a Multiverse?", HAPP Conference on History and Philosophy of Cosmology, University of Oxford, 2024.
"Ways and Whys", Inaugural Lecture, University of Birmingham, 2022.
"Substantive Discovery in Naturalistic Modal Metaphysics", Bristol, 2020.
"Quantum Metaphysics", Edinburgh, 2020.
"Plenitude and Recombination", Manchester, 2019.
"Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics", Birmingham, 2019.
"Emergent Contingency", Edinburgh, 2016.
"Emergent Spacetime: Grounded or Caused?", Chicago, 2016.
"Metaphysical Causation", Edinburgh, 2015.
"Quantum Mechanics and the Metaphysics of Many Worlds", St Andrews, 2012.
James Robinson interviews me for Multiverses - about chance and quantum modal realism.
Jordan Myers interviews me for Plato's Cave, focusing on my quantum account of contingency.