
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Chris Dorst
Works in Progress
Fine-Tuning Divine Indifference. (with Kevin Dorst)
What Relativistic Laws Cannot Be*
GRW and Perceptual Superpositions*
Laws and Accidents*
[Starred (*) papers are in blind review, so I have changed their titles for the sake of anonymity. To see current drafts of these papers, please email me at cdorst[at]ufl[dot]edu.]
Published Papers
Laws, Melodies, and the Paradox of Predictability. (Forthcoming) Synthese.
There Is No Measurement Problem for Humeans. (Forthcoming) Noûs.
Predictive Infelicities and the Instability of Predictive Optimality. (Forthcoming) In Humean Laws for Human Agents, Siegfried Jaag, Christian Loew, and Michael Hicks, (eds.) Oxford University Press.
Why do the Laws Support Counterfactuals? (2020) Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00207-1
Humean Laws, Explanatory Circularity, and the Aim of Scientific Explanation. (2019) Philosophical Studies. 176: 2657-2679.
Towards a Best Predictive System Account of Laws of Nature. (2019) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 70: 877-900.
Bet Accepted: A Reply to Freitag. (2018) Philosophical Quarterly. 68: 175-83.
Evidence, Significance, and Counterfactuals: Schramm on the New Riddle of Induction. Erkenntnis. 81: 143-154.
Book Reviews
Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities, by Arnold Koslow. Review. (2020) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
In All Probability, Quite Handy. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, Alan Hájek and Christopher Hitchcock, eds. (2018) Metascience. 27: 223-226