Publications by Topic

Moral and Value Theory

1. Disputed Moral Issues, 6th edition, co-edited with Mark Timmons, Oxford University Press, 2023

2. The Solace: Finding Value in Death through Gratitude for Life, Oxford University Press, 2020

3. "The Ordinary Meaningful Life," Journal of the American Philosophical Association 9 (2023), 408-425

4. "The Gift of Death," The Philosophers' Magazine 92 (2020, 4th Quarter)

5. "Alienation and Responsibility," in Michael Brownstein & Jennifer Saul, ed., Implicit Bias and Philosophy, vol. 2 (Oxford University Press, 2016), 37-61

6. "Should We Care about the Preservation of Our Species," NPR Cosmos and Culture, Nov. 7, 2016

7. "The Shape of a Life and the Value of Loss and Gain," Philosophical Studies 162 (2013), 665-682

   • Winner of the American Philosophical Association's 2014 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

8. "Does Direct Moral Judgment Have a Phenomenal Essence?" Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013), 52-69 (pre-print here--Brill and JMP are acknowledged for permission to post)

9. “Is Kantian Ethics Self-Refuting? A Reply to Millgram,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, September 2008, 1-5

10. “Kant’s Conception of Humanity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 45 (April 2007), 291-308

11. “Kant’s Principle of Universal Law,” in Mark Timmons, ed., Conduct and Character (5th ed.) (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006): 126-139

    • Reprinted in Mark Timmons, ed., Conduct and Character (6th ed.) (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2011)

    • Reprinted in David Ohreen, Ed., An Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge, God, Mind, and Morality (Nelson, 2009)

12.  “Expanding the Limits of Universalization: Kant’s Duties and Kantian Moral Deliberation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 33 (March 2003), 23-48

13. “Kant’s Non-Prudential Duty of Beneficence,” in Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, and Ralph Schumacher, eds., Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des IX. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses (Walter de Gruyter, 2001), Bd. III, 211-219

14. Review of Graham Oddie, Value, Reality, and Desire (Oxford University Press, 2005), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (Dec. 2006), 631-634

15. Review of Robert A. Hinde, Why Good Is Good: the Sources of Morality (Routledge, 2002), Ethics 114 (July 2005), 856-857

16. Review of Jamie Mayerfeld, Suffering and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 1999), International Studies in Philosophy 35, no. 4 (2004), 363

Philosophy of Race

1. What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views (Oxford University Press, 2019), with Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer

2. A Theory of Race (Routledge, 2009)

3. “A Metatheory of Race,” in Naomi Zack, ed., the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race (Oxford University Press, 2017)

4. With Jonathan Woodward, "Basic Racial Realism," Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (2015), 449-466

5. “The End of Historical Constructivism: Circularity, Redundancy, Indeterminacy,” The Monist 93 (April 2010), 321-335

6. “Another Look at the Reality of Race, by which I Mean Racef,” in Allan Hazlett, ed., New Waves in Metaphysics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 54-71

7. With Julie Shulman, “Is Ordinary Race-Thinking Biological or Social, and Does It Matter for Racism?” Journal of Social Philosophy special issue: New Thinking in Race Theory, vol. 41 (Fall 2010), 244-259

8. "Racism as Disrespect," Ethics, vol. 120 (2009), 64-93

9. "In Defense of a Four-Part Theory: Replies to Hardimon, Haslanger, Mallon, & Zack," Symposia on Race, Gender, and Philosophy, vol. 5 no. 2 (Fall 2009), 1-18

10. With Julie Shulman and Enrique Covarrubias, “The Ordinary Conception of Race in the United States and Its Relation to Racial Attitudes: A New Approach,” Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol. 9 (2009), 15-38

    • Reprinted in Paul Taylor, ed., The Philosophy of Race, Volume II, Racial Being and Knowing (Routledge, 2011)

11. “On the Methodology of the Race Debate: Conceptual Analysis and Racial Discourse,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 76 (March 2008), 333-358

12. “Three Things Realist Constructionism about Race—or Anything Else—Can Do,” Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 38 (Winter 2007), 554-568 

13. “A Third Way in the Race Debate,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 14 (June 2006), 163-185

14. “On the New Biology of Race,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 100 (Sept. 2003), 456-474

15. Review of Michael O. Hardimon, Rethinking Race: The Case for Deflationary Realism (Harvard University Press, 2017.  Mind, 127 (2018), 911-919.

16. Review of Albert Atkins, The Philosophy of Race (Acumen, 2012), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2013

17. Review of Michael P. Levine and Tamas Pataki, eds., Racism in Mind (Cornell University Press, 2004), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (March 2006), 150-151

Metaphysics and Language (General)

1. With Stuart Brock, 26) "The Paradox Paradox," Synthese 200 (2022)

2. “Conceptual Revolution,” in Teresa Marques and Asa Wikforss, ed., Shifting Concepts: The Philosophyand Psychologyof Conceptual Variability(Oxford University Press, 2020), 149-166 

3. With Michael Lynch, “The Impossibility of Superdupervenience,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 113 (April 2003), 201-221 

Law

1. "The Expressive Theory of Punishment Defended," Law and Philosophy 34 (2015), 601-631

2. The Meaning and Wrongness of Discrimination,” Criminal Justice Ethics vol. 34 (2015), 116-129.  

   • Review Essay (6,000 words), Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Born Free and Equal? (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Applied Ethics

1. "A Straightforward Analysis of Terrorism," Public Affairs Quarterly 25 (2011), 181-196

Aesthetics

1. “Hi-Fi Aesthetics,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 65 (Spring 2007), 163-174

Basketball (Ir/rational fandom)

1. “The Real Fan: A Love Story,” The Raven, Issue 3: Remorse (2023)

2. "Curses!  If Not the Red Sox, Why Not the Blazers?" The Oregonian, Oct. 29, 2004, p. C11