L.A. Paul specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, focusing on questions concerning perception, time, temporal experience, mereology, causation, identity, constitution and essence. She also has interests in philosophical methodology, cognitive science, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. Her publications include: "Aspect Causation," Journal of Philosophy (2000), "Logical Parts," Noûs (2002), "The Context of Essence," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2004), "Coincidence as Overlap," Noûs (2006), "In Defense of Essentialism," Philosophical Perpectives (2006), "Constitutive Overdetermination," Topics in Contemporary Philosophy IV (2007), "Temporal Experience," Journal of Philosophy (2010). She is the co-editor of Causation and Counterfactuals (2004), with Collins and Hall, and is nearly finished writing Causation: A User's Guide, with Ned Hall.