My areas of specialization is in contemporary analytic metaphysics, especially in the metaphysics of modality, dispositions, and grounding. My dissertation argues in favor of necessitism, being the doctrine that every object that exists necessarily exists and that no object can ever come into or out of being. It is also argued that the fundamental dispositions or powers of these objects must be unchanging and that all contingency results from the ways in which these objects manifest themselves in virtue of the natural relations that obtain between them. In this way, possibility is grounded in potency and what we usually take to be contingent objects are really contingent occurents or processes whereas the "things themselves" underlie such processes.