Hello! My name is Chad. I'm a Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the College of William & Mary. As a philosopher, I spend a lot of time thinking about the nature of things like possibility, truth, identity, right, and wrong.
When I'm not doing philosophy, I like to write kid's poems. Secretly, I want to be a children's author. I originally pursued a PhD because I mistakenly believed that I needed one to become the next Dr. Seuss. I've also written a lot of Chad Libs (my own more fun, more complicated version of Mad Libs).
Many evenings, you'll find me playing a nerdy strategy game of some sort (like Dominion, Wingspan, or Carcassonne). One time, I got so into the game Patchwork, I even made my own expansion to it!
Other times, you'll find me walking in the forest and looking at birds, reading a book on my porch (probably about some dystopia where teens save the world), attending a show (anything from Broadway to Monster Trucks; Weird Al to Gwar), playing the ukulele, learning to make Ethiopian food, or trying to understand wine.
Procreation is Immoral on Environmental Grounds - Journal of Ethics
Justifying Subsistence Emissions: An Appeal to Causal Impotence - Journal of Value Inquiry
The World is a Necessary Being - Philosophia
Causal Relevance, Permissible Omissions, and Famine Relief - Dialectica
Climate Change, Individual Emissions, and Foreseeing Harm - Journal of Moral Philosophy
Classical Theism and Modal Realism are Incompatible - Religious Studies
Modal Truthmakers, Truth Conditions, & Analyses - Acta Analytica
The Recycling Problem for Event Individuation - Erkenntnis
Dispositional Modal Truthmakers - Philosophia
Truthmaking and the Gettier Problem - Ratio
Comments from my students at CU-Boulder
Comments from my students at William & Mary
My actual dissertation (In Defense of the New Actualism)
Interview on Back to the Future and Time Travel