Works in Progress

What Relativistic Laws Cannot Be*

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How Not to Disconfirm GRW

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Could Everything be Fixed by Law?​*

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The BPSA and the Past Hypothesis*

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The Real Measurement Problem (with Erik Deumens)

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[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.]

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Published Papers

Splitting the (In)Difference: Why Fine-Tuning Supports Design. (With Kevin Dorst.)
(Forthcoming) Thought.

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Laws, Melodies, and the Paradox of Predictability.
(Forthcoming) Synthese.

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There Is No Measurement Problem for Humeans.
(Forthcoming) Noûs.

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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.

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Why do the Laws Support Counterfactuals? (2020) Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00207-1​

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Humean Laws, Explanatory Circularity, and the Aim of Scientific Explanation. (2019) Philosophical Studies. 176: 2657-2679.

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Towards a Best Predictive System Account of Laws of Nature.
(2019) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 70: 877-900.

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Bet Accepted: A Reply to Freitag.
(2018) Philosophical Quarterly. 68: 175-83.

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Evidence, Significance, and Counterfactuals: Schramm on the New Riddle of Induction. 
(2016) Erkenntnis. 81: 143-154.

Book Reviews

​Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities, by Arnold Koslow. Review. (2020) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 

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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​

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