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

BOOK

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

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" forthcoming in Anna Bergqvist and Robert Cowan (eds.): Evaluative Perception (Oxford: OUP, 2018)

"An Ecumenical Matter?" forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly.

"The That" forthcoming in Antti Kaupinen and Jussi Suikkanen (eds.): Methodology and Moral Philosophy (Routledge).

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.