Publications
Work in Progress
On perceptual structure:
Dissertation: Getting Properties in Mind
- (2020) Thinking Through Illusion. European Journal of Philosophy.
- (2018) Thought about Properties: Why the Perceptual Case is Basic. Philosophical Quarterly. [Penultimate Draft]
- (2017) On the Explanatory Power of Hallucination. Synthese. [co-authored with Mike Arsenault] [Published Version]
Work in Progress
On perceptual structure:
- A paper on the implications of perception's structural features for a right account of perceptual justification.
- A paper that motivates and develops a new framework for understanding the debate over whether we perceive kind properties
- A paper about how perception's structural features can inform perceivers about the world
- A paper devoted to defending the claim that perception can mislead us about what a property is like, and yet still permit us to form perceptual demonstrative thoughts about the property. [This is a companion piece to my 'Thinking Through Illusion' (EJP, forthcoming).]
- A paper that diagnoses, and then undermines, the widespread presumption that hallucinatory experiences put us in perceptual contact with hallucinated colours, shapes, and sizes.
- A paper about whether sortalism is true for thought about properties, and what that might mean for a right account of property perception
- A paper defending the thesis that perception-based justification for general beliefs about observable properties does not require acquaintance with those properties (or anything like acquaintance, for that matter).
- A paper that outlines and motivates an approach to general jurisprudence that roughly parallels Strawson's 'descriptive metaphysics'
- A paper co-authored with my brother, Tashi Alford-Duguid, that develops and defends a new account of how control can help determine the scope of informational privacy
- A paper that traces a neglected aspect of linguistic presupposition's epistemic significance
Dissertation: Getting Properties in Mind
- If you'd like to read it, here is a copy.
- Here is my dissertation abstract.