Research

Publications

We Have Never Been Sophisticated (with James Owen Weatherall, Forthcoming) Philosophy of Physics. (preprint)

Do First-Class Constraints Generate Gauge Transformations? A Geometric Resolution (Forthcoming) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. (preprint)

Excess Structure in the Constrained Hamiltonian Formalism (2025) Philosophy of Science. (preprint)

The Relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics: The Irregular Case (2025) Philosophy of Physics, 3(1): 9, 1–23.

The Representational Role of Sophisticated Theories (2024) Philosophy of Science, 91(5):1478-1487.

Mathematical Responses to the Hole Argument: Then and Now (with James Owen Weatherall, 2022) Philosophy of Science, 89(5):1223-1232 (preprint)

The Non-Equivalence of Einstein and Lorentz (2021) The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 72(4). This paper was chosen as an Editors’ Choice article. (preprint)

On Representational Redundancy, Surplus Structure, and the Hole Argument (with James Owen Weatherall, 2020) Foundations of Physics, 50, pp. 270-293. (preprint)

Book Reviews

Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity” by James Read (2025) Philosophy of Science, 92(4):1034-1038.

Works In Progress

Revisiting the ‘Hole Argument’ and the ‘Problem of Time’

A paper on dynamic deliberation and game-theoretic solution concepts (with Calum McNamara)