Publications
Work in Progress
On perceptual structure:
Dissertation: Getting Properties in Mind
- (2024) On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure. Philosophical Quarterly.
- (2022) Russell on Propositions. Routledge Handbook of Propositions. C. Tillman and A. Murray (Eds.) [co-authored with Fatema Amijee]
- (2020) Thinking Through Illusion. European Journal of Philosophy.
- (2018) Thought about Properties: Why the Perceptual Case is Basic. Philosophical Quarterly.
- (2017) On the Explanatory Power of Hallucination. Synthese. [co-authored with Mike Arsenault]
Work in Progress
On perceptual structure:
- A paper that motivates and develops a new framework for understanding the debate over whether we perceive other minds.
- A paper that develops and defends a new austere account of how sensory experience and sensory imagination can provide knowledge of non-actual possibilities
- 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, 2020).]
- A paper that diagnoses, and then undermines, the widespread presumption that hallucinatory experiences put us in perceptual contact with colours, shapes, and sizes.
- A paper about whether sortalism is true for thought about properties, and what its truth 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 on Frege's puzzle, higher order quantification, and the explanatory role of reference
- 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.