L.A. Paul

Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
Social Sciences 213,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

Contact Me: lapaul [at] arizona [dot] edu

Book

Causation and Counterfactuals. Edited by John Collins, Ned Hall and L.A. Paul, with a coauthored Introduction, MIT Press. Read the catalog summary from MIT Press and then buy it from Amazon. Contributors include D. M. Armstrong, Helen Beebee, David Coady, John Collins, Ned Hall, Christopher Hitchcock, Igal Kvart, David Lewis, Cei Maslen, Tim Maudlin, D. H. Mellor, Peter Menzies, L. A. Paul, Murali Ramachandran, Jonathan Schaffer, and Stephen Yablo.


Selected Papers

"Constitutive Overdetermination." Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol IV: Causation and Explanation. 2007.
"In Defense of Essentialism." Philosophical Perspectives (Metaphysics), 2006.
"Coincidence as Overlap." Nous, December 2006.
"Introduction." (With Ned Hall and John Collins) "Causation and Counterfactuals, MIT Press, 2004.
"The Context of Essence. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, March 2004.
"Causation and Preemption." (with Ned Hall) Philosophy of Science Today , OUP (UK), 2003.
"Logical Parts." Nous, December 2002.
"Limited Realism: Cartwright on Natures and Laws." Philosophical Books, October 2002.
"Aspect Causation." Journal of Philosophy, April 2000.
"Keeping Track of the Time." Analysis, July 1998.
"The Worm at the Root of the Passions." Utilitas, April 1998.
"Problems with Late Preemption." Analysis, January 1998.
"Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentence Types." Synthese, April 1997.