Isaac Wilhelm

isaac.wilhelm@rutgers.edu

Publications

Comparing Mathematical Explanations (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Explanatory Priority Monism (forthcoming). Philosophical Studies.
Grounding and Propositional Identity (forthcoming). Analysis.
Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints (forthcoming). Noûs.
The Stage Theory of Groups (forthcoming). Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
An Argument for Entity Grounding (forthcoming). Analysis.
Typical: A Theory of Typicality and Typicality Explanation (forthcoming). The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (archive version).

The Logic of Typicality (forthcoming). In Valia Allori, ed., Statistical Mechanics and Scientific Explanation: Determinism, Indeterminism and Laws of Nature. World Scientific. (with Harry Crane)
Celestial Chaos: The New Logics of Theory-Testing in Orbital Dynamics (2019). Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 65: 97-102.
The Ontology of Mechanisms (2019). The Journal of Philosophy 116: 615-636.
A Statistical Analysis of Luck (2018). Synthese doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1745-4.
New Data on the Representation of Women in Philosophy Journals: 2004-2015 (2018). Philosophical Studies 175: 1441-1464. (with Sherri Conklin and Nicole Hassoun)
The Representation of Belief (2018). Journal of Philosophical Logic 47: 715-732.

Works in Progress or Under Review

[redacted for anonymous review] I show that centered propositions generate a problem for the Principal Principle, and I suggest a solution.
[redacted for anonymous review] I argue that some individuals have their genders essentially while others do not.
[redacted for anonymous review] I propose a stage-theoretic, fine-grained theory of properties, relations, and propositions which avoids the Russell-Myhill argument.