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Spring 2020
I argue that in order to resolve the debate between taxonomic monism and taxonomic pluralism, we should construe the reality of natural kinds in terms of relative fundamentality: a natural kind is real if and only if it is more fundamental than its members, whose reality is taken for granted in...
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Spring 2012
An increasing number of realists about science believe that what science really tells us about are the world's structural features. For these realists, then, we should restrict our realist commitments: the theoretical objects described by science are not the kinds of entities towards which we...
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Fall 2020
The ‘resolute’ reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work is often taken to involve a kind of anti-realism about what the philosopher calls ‘logic,’ or ‘grammar’ – the order of meaning that structures our understanding of the world and which is expressed in our uses of language. Conversely, I argue...
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Fall 2012
This dissertation is about the work of melancholy in the Victorian realist novel, particularly those texts written in the late 1840s. The representation of melancholy affords an examination of a wide scope of issues that relate to the family, generally, and to the role of the middle-class women...