 Biographical Note David Owens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. From 1993 until 2010 he taught at the University of Sheffield. He has also held visiting appointments at All Soul's College, Oxford, Yale University, London University, Sydney University and the University of Lublin. His forthcoming book Shaping the Normative Landscape focuses on blame, wronging and obligation and their involvement in forgiveness, friendship, promising and consent. Contact: D.Owens@Reading.ac.uk Select Bibliography BOOKS Shaping the Normative Landscape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Causes and Coincidences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). Available here. PAPERS (FOR DOWNLOADS OF THE ITEMS LISTED BELOW CLICK ON "PDF ESSAYS" LINK IN SIDEBAR TO THE LEFT) ‘The Value of Duty' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (2012). 'Deliberation
and the First Person,’ in Anthony Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011), pp. 261-77. 'The Possibility of Consent' Ratio Vol. 24 (December 2011), pp. 402-21. ‘The Problem with Promising,’ in Hanoch Sheinman (ed.), Understanding Promises: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011), pp. 58-79. ‘Freedom and Practical Judgement,’ in Lucy O’Brien and Matthew Soteriou (eds.), Mental Actions (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 122-137. Volume available here. ‘Promising Without Intending,’ Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 105, No. 12 (December 2008), pp. 737-55.
‘Rationalism about Obligation,’ European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 3 (December 2008), pp. 403-31.
'Descartes’s Use of Doubt,' in Janet Broughton and John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell 2007), pp. 164-178. Volume available here.
‘Disenchantment,’ in Louise M. Antony (ed.), Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), pp. 165-179. Volume available here.
‘Duress, Deception and the Validity of a Promise,’ Mind, Vol. 116, No. 462 (April 2007), pp. 293-315.
‘Testimony and Assertion,’ Philosophical Studies, Vol. 130, No. 1 (July 2006), pp. 105-129.
‘A Simple Theory of Promising,’ Philosophical Review, Vol. 115, No. 1 (January 2006), pp. 51-77.
‘Does Belief Have An Aim?’, Philosophical Studies, Vol 115, No. 3 (August 2003), pp. 275-97.
‘Epistemic Akrasia,’ The Monist, Vol. 85, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 381-97.
‘Scepticisms: Descartes and Hume,’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume LXXIV (July 2000), pp. 119-42.
‘The Authority of Memory,’ European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 3 (December 1999), pp. 312-329.
'A Lockean Theory of Experiential Memory,' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 54, No. 2 (June 1996), pp. 319-32.
'Causes and Coincidences,' Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 90, Part 1 (1989/90), pp. 49-64
'Disjunctive Laws,' Analysis, Vol. 49, No. 4 (October 1989), pp.197-202
'Levels of Explanation,' Mind, Vol. 98, No. 389 (January 1989), pp. 59-79
'Should Blackmail be Banned?', Philosophy, Vol. 63, No. 246 (October 1988), pp. 501-14.
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