Ce qui est vraiment terrible, c'est que tout le monde a ses raisons. (Octave in La Règle du Jeu)
BOOKS
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). "Anything goes? Eccentricity and Reason in Stevenson" forthcoming in Rachel Handley (ed.): Stevenson on Emotivism (Palgrave) "Reasons for Pretending and Pretend Reasons" forthcoming in Richard Joyce and Stuart Brock (eds): Moral and Religious Fictionalism (OUP) |
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. |