Publications
(2023) ‘Realism, Deflationism, and Metaphysical Explanation’ in M. Garcia (ed.) Thomasson on Ontology (Springer). (Final draft)
(2023) ‘How to be an Antirealist about Metaphysical Explanation‘ Ratio.
(2022) ‘Setting the Story Straight: Fictionalism about Grounding‘ Philosophical Studies 179 (343-361).
(2019) ‘Questions and Answers: Metaphysical Explanation and the Structure of Reality‘ Journal of the American Philosophical Association 5(1): 98-116.
(2019) ‘On Hyperintensional Metaphysics’ in Stenwall and Wahlberg (eds.) Maurinian Truths (Lund: Lund University) pp. 151-158. (with Darragh Byrne)
(2019) ‘Is Building Built?‘ Analysis 79(2): 315-327.
(2018) ‘Irrealism About Grounding‘ Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 82: 23-44. (Final draft)
(2018) ‘Metaphysical Interdependence, Epistemic Coherentism and Holistic Explanation’ Bliss, R. and Priest, G. (eds) Reality and its Structure (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
(2016) ‘Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 116(3): 395-402.
(2016) ‘Is Naturalness Natural?’ American Philosophical Quarterly 53(4): 381-396 (Final draft)
(2016) ‘Metaphysical Interdependence’ in Jago, M. (ed) Reality Making (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 38-55. (Final draft)
(2016) ‘Discerning the Structure of Reality’ The Philosopher’s Magazine, 74, pp. 71-75. (Final draft)
Book Reviews, Handbook Articles, etc.
(2021) ‘Metaphysical Explanation‘ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (with Alex Skiles, Anna-Sofia Maurin, Robin Stenwall and Andrew Brenner).
(2021) ‘Metaphysical Explanation’ in Bliss & Miller (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics.
(2021) ‘Partial Order’ in M. Raven (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding.
(2018) ‘Review of Karen Bennett’s Making Things Up‘ Philosophy 93(4): 581-586
(2014) ‘Ontological Dependence‘ in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0203.xml
Work in Progress and Under Review
Book project: Structuring Reality (under contract with Oxford University Press). Expected 2024.
Papers:
- ‘Grounding Antiphysicalism’ for G. Rabin (ed.) Grounding and Consciousness (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (With Darragh Byrne)
- A paper on realism and social metaphysics
- A paper about whether grounding inherits features from metaphysical explanation (with Anna-Sofia Maurin)
- A paper on scepticism about metaphysical explanation (under review)
- A paper arguing that games are a kind of fictional world
- A paper on fictionalism about kinds
- A paper defending modal fictionalism against an objection (under review)
- A paper on irrealism about fictional characters
Naomi Thompson 