Philosophy Department

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2014.
• B.A., Philosophy, Brandeis University, 2004.

About

David joined the department at UC Davis in 2020. Prior to that he has held appointments at the University of Sydney, Oxford University, University of Rochester, and Ithaca College.

Research Focus

David's research concerns issues at the intersection of the philosophy of science, the philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. Of particular interest are: (1) structural realism and structuralism, and (2) the interpretation and metaphysics of quantum theory.

Publications

• The Foundation of Reality: Fundamentality, Space, and Time (D. Glick, G. Darby, and A. Marmodoro eds.)

  Hardcopy out now from Oxford University Press

  Oxford Scholarship Online: DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198831501.001.0001

• In Defense of the Metaphysics of Entanglement (with George Darby)

  In The Foundation of Reality (Glick, Darby, Marmodoro (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2020.

  Hardcopy out now from Oxford University Press

  Oxford Scholarship Online: DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198831501.001.0001

  Preprint available here

• Is the Reality Criterion Analytic? (with Florian Boge)

  Erkenntnis, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s10670-019-00163-w

  Preprint available here

• Pluralist Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds?

  Synthese, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02333-3

  Preprint available here

• Timelike Entanglement for Delayed-Choice Entanglement Swapping

  Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.06.001

  Preprint available here

• Desperately Seeking Sourcehood (with Hannah Tierney)

  Philosophical Studies, 2018. doi: 10.1007/s11098-018-1215-3

  Preprint available here

• Generalism and the Metaphysics of Ontic Structural Realism

  The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2018. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axy008

  Preprint available here

• Against Quantum Indeterminacy

  Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2017. doi: 10.1002/tht3.250

  Preprint available here

• The Ontology of Quantum Field Theory: Structural Realism Vindicated?

  Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.06.007

  Preprint available here

• Minimal Structural Essentialism: Why Physics Doesn't Care Which Is Which

  In Individuals Across the Sciences, T. Pradeu and A. Guay (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2015.

  Hardcopy available from Oxford University Press

  Oxford Scholarship Online:doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199382514.003.0012

  Preprint available here

Teaching

David teaches primarily in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and logic.