Christopher J. Masterman
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My research focuses on metaphysics, ontology and some logic. So far, I have mostly focused on the metaphysics and logic of modality. I've spent a lot of time thinking about possible worlds and the distinction between truth in, and truth at, a possible world and how it might help in defending propositional contingentism. Recently, I've been trying to branch out. I'm currently thinking about meta-/ontology (particularly nihilism—the view that we should ditch ontology altogether), composition and unity. I'm also interested in the metaphysics of properties and propositions. 
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1. "Two distinctions about world-relative truth". Analysis. (Forthcoming)  | Final Version
2. "Modality, Truth and Mere Picture Thinking". Synthese. (2025)   | Link | Final Version
3. "Contingentism and Fragile Worlds". Inquiry (Online First) (2024)   
 | Link | Final Version 
4. "What does nihilism tell us about modal logic?". Philosophical Studies  181: 1851–1875. (2024)  | Link | Final Version  
5. "Some ways the ways the world could have been can't be". Journal of Philosophical Logic 53: 997–1025. (2024)  | Link | ​Final Version
6. "Serious Actualism and Nonexistence". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102(3): 658–674. (2024) | Link​​ | Final Version
7. "Serious Actualism, Typography, and Incompossible Sentences". Erkenntnis (Online First) (2023)  | Link | Final Version
8. "Propositional contingentism and possible worlds". Synthese 200 (5): 1-34. (2022)  | Link | Final Version 

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