Ce qui est vraiment terrible, c'est que tout le monde a ses raisons. (Octave in La Règle du Jeu)

BOOKS

James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer (eds): Constructivism in Practical Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012)

​James Lenman: The Possibility of Moral Community (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Ben Bramble and James Lenman: For and Against Utilitarianism (Routledge, 2025)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND CRITICAL STUDIES

2015-

"Scepticism about Intuition" in Sophie-Grace Chappell (ed.): Intuition, Theory and Anti-Theory in Ethics (Oxford: OUP, 2015), pp. 24-39.

"Moral Inquiry and Mob Psychology" in Christopher Daly (ed.). The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, pp. 637-651.

"Why Externalism is a Problem for Ethical Intuitionists" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Virtual Issue 3, 2015: Methods in Ethics, ed. Ben Colburn, p. 326-333.

"La Révolution est un bloc? Wallace on Affirmation and Regret" Journal of Applied Philosophy 34, 2017, pp. 420-428..

"Reasons without Humans" in Analysis 77, 2017, pp. 586-595.

"The Primacy of the Passions" in Anna Bergqvist and Robert Cowan (eds.): Evaluative Perception (Oxford: OUP, 2018), pp. 282-294.

"An Ecumenical Matter" in Philosophical Quarterly 69, 2019, pp. 175-186.

"The That" in Jussi Suikkanen and Antti Kauppinen (eds.): Metholodology and Moral Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 148-165.

"Ethics and Perception: Two Kinds of Quasi-Realism” In Christopher Cowie and Richard Rowland (eds.): Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics (Routledge, 2019).

"How Effective Altruism Lost the Plot" in IAI News October 2019. 

"Reasons for Pretending and Pretend Reasons" forthcoming in Richard Joyce and Stuart Brock (eds): Moral Fictionalism and Religious Fictionalism (OUP, 2023 )

"Making Sense of Ethics: An Introduction to Metaethics in Bart: Engelen and Maureen Sie (eds.): Second Thoughts: First Introductions to Philosophy
https://openpresstiu.pubpub.org/pub/making-sense-of-ethics/release/3?readingCollection=5e291060

"Anything goes? Eccentricity and Reason in Stevenson" forthcoming in Rachel Handley (ed.): Stevenson on Emotivism (Palgrave)

2012-2014

"Introduction" in James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer (eds.): Constructivism in Practical Philosophy (Oxford, OUP, 2012) (with Yonatan Shemmer).

"Expressivism and Constructivism" in James Lenman and Yonatan Shemmer (eds.): Constructivism in Practical Philosophy (Oxford, OUP, 2012).

"Science, Ethics and Observation" in Havi Carel and Darian Meacham (eds.): Phenomenology and Naturalism, Supplement to Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp.261-274.

"Ethics Without Errors" in Ratio 26, 2013, pp. 391-409.

Reprinted in Bart Streumer (ed.): Irrealism in Ethics (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)

"Deliberation, Schmeliberation: Enoch's Indispensibility Argument" in Philosophical Studies 168, 2014, pp. 835-842.

"Gibbardian Humiility: Moral Fallibility and Moral Smugness" in Journal of Value Inquiry 48, 2014, pp. 235-245 (issue edited by Sabine Roeser and Joel Rickard).

2009-2011

"Reasons for Action: Justification vs. Explanation" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasons-just-vs-expl/), posted February, 2009.

“Naturalism Without Tears” in Ratio 22, 2009, pp. 1-18.

Reprinted in Jussi Suikkanen and John Cottingham (eds.): Essays on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

"Achieving Objectivity" in Philosophical Perspectives 23, 2009, pp. 293-304

"Humean Constructivism in Moral Theory" in Oxford Studies in Metaethics 5, 2010, pp. 175-193.

“Uggles and Muggles: Wedgwood on Normative Thought and Justification” in Philosophical Studies 151, 2010, pp. 469-477.

“Pleasure, Desire and Practical Reason” in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 14, 2011, pp. 143-149.

2006-2008

“Compatibilism and Contractualism: The Possibility of Moral Responsibility” in Ethics 117, 2006, pp. 7-31

“How to Live, What to Do: A Critical Study of Allan Gibbard: Thinking How to Live” in Journal of Moral Philosophy 3, 2006, pp. 359-369.

“Moral Naturalism” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism-moral/ ), posted June, 2006.

“What is Moral Inquiry?” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 81, 2007, pp. 63-81.

"Why I Have No Plans to Retire: In Defence of Moderate Professional Complacency" in Ratio 20, 2007, pp. 241-246.

The Politics of the Self” in Lisa Bortolotti (ed.): Philosophy and Happiness (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), pp. 183-199.

“Contractualism and Risk Imposition”, Politics, Philosophy and Economics 7, 2008, pp. 99-122.

“Against Moral Fictionalism”, Philosophical Books 49, 2008, pp. 23-32.

"Actions, Motives and Causes: A Critical Study of Alfred R. Mele: Motivation and Agency", Philosophical Quarterly 58, 2008, pp. 53-62.

2003-2005

“Moral Deviants and Amoral Saints: A Dilemma for Moral Externalism” in Southern Journal of Philosophy 61, 2003 pp. 223-240.

“Noncognitivism and Wishfulness” in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 6, 2003, pp. 265-274.

“Disciplined Syntacticism and Moral Expressivism” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66, 2003, pp. 32-57.

“Noncognitivism and the Dimensions of Evaluative Judgement: A Review of Michael Smith: “Evaluation, Uncertainty and Motivation”” in BEARS (Brown Electronic Article Review Service), World Wide Web, (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/homepage.html). Posted January 15th 2003 as part of a symposium.

“Utilitarianism and Obviousness” in Utilitas 16, 2004, pp. 322-325. 

“The Saucer of Mud, The Kudzu Vine and the Uxorious Cheetah: Against Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism in Metaethics” in The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1, 2005, pp. 37-50.

2000-2002

“Contracting Responsibility” in Ton van den Beld (ed), Moral Responsibility and Ontology (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 171-182.

"Preferences in their Place" in Environmental Values 9, 2000, pp. 431-451.

"Consequentialism and Cluelessness" in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol 29, 2000, pp. 342-370.

"On Becoming Redundant or What Computers Shouldn't Do" in Journal of Applied Philosophy 18, 2001, pp. 1-11.

Reprinted in John Weckert (ed.) Computer Ethics (Ashgate: International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics, 2007).

"On the Alleged Shallowness of Compatibilism: A Critical Study of Saul Smilansky: Free Will and Illusion" in Iyyun 51, 2002, pp. 63-79.

"On Becoming Extinct" in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83, 2002, pp. 253-269.

Reprinted in David Benatar (ed.): Life, Death and Meaning (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) and Hon-Lam Li and Anthony Kwok-wing Yeung (eds.): Animal Rights, Personhood and the Ethics of Killing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.)

'90s

“Beliefs about Other Minds: A Pragmatic Justification” in American Philosophical Quarterly 31, 1994, pp. 223-234. 

“Finding Beauty” in Journal of Value Inquiry (special issue on aesthetic value), 28, 1994, pp.245-256.

“Immortality: A Letter” in Cogito 9, 1995, pp.164-169.  

Reprinted in David Benatar (ed.): Life, Death and Meaning (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).

“Belief, Desire and Motivation: An Essay in Quasi-Hydraulics” in American Philosophical Quarterly 33, 1996, pp. 291-301.

“Michael Smith and the Daleks: Reason, Morality and Contingency” in Utilitas 11, 1999, pp. 164-177. 

 “The Externalist and the Amoralist” in Philosophia (Israel) 27., 1999, pp. 441-457.

SHORTER BOOK REVIEWS

Kurt Baier: The Rational and the Moral Order and J. B. Schneewind (ed.): Reason, Ethics and Society in Philosophical Books, Vol. 38, 1997.
Michael Smith: The Moral Problem in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1, 1998.
Christine Korsgaard: Creating the Kingdom of Ends in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 1, 1998.
Marcel S. Lieberman: Commitment, Value and Moral Realism in Mind 109, 2000.
Tae-Chang Kim and Ross Harrison (eds.): Self and Future Generations in  Philosophical Books 43, 2002.
Jeanette Kennett: Agency and Responsibility in Utilitas 15, 2003.
Brad Hooker: Ideal Code, Real World in Philosophical Books 44, 2003.
G. F. Schueler: Reasons and Purposes in Mind 116, 2007.
Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons (eds.): Metaethics After Moore in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2007.
Terence Cuneo: The Normative Web in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008.
Allan Gibbard: Reconciling Our Aims in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009.
Mark Schroeder: Slaves of the Passions in Philosophical Quarterly, 2013.
Gillian Russell: Truth in Virtue of Meaning in Ethics, 2013.
T. M. Scanlon: Being Realistic About Reasons in Economics and Philosophy, 2015.
Stephen Finlay: Confusion of Tongues forthcoming in Language.