Publications

Books


Kant’s Lasting Legacy: Essays in Honor of Béatrice Longuenesse

Editor, with Stefanie Grüne (in preparation)


The New Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer 

Editor, with Sandra Shapshay, Cambridge University Press (under contract)


Kant’s Fundamental Assumptions.

Editor, with Colin McLear. Oxford University Press (under contract).


Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality

(editor) Routledge Press (2019)


Compassionate Moral Realism

Oxford University Press (2018)


Articles


“Schopenhauer’s Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics” (with Kayla Mehl)

The Schopenhauerian Mind, David Bather-Woods and Timothy Stoll (eds.). Routledge Press (forthcoming)


“Kant on Modality” (with Aaron Barker)

The Oxford Handbook of Kant, Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson (eds.). Oxford University Press (forthcoming) 


“Reply to Bollen’s ‘Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy’.” 

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12:9 (2003): 10–14.


"Kant's Derivation of the Moral 'Ought' from a Metaphysical 'Is'" 

The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds, Nicholas Stang and Karl Schafer (eds.) Oxford University Press (2022)


“Schopenhauer’s Titus Argument”

Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy, Patrick Hassan (ed.). Routledge Press (2022), 31-51


"Schopenhauer on the Content of Compassion"

Noûs 55:4 (2021), 782-99


"Kant’s (Non-Question-Begging) Refutation of Cartesian Scepticism"

Kantian Review 24:1 (2019), 77-101


"Never Mind the Intuitive Intellect: Applying Kant's Categories to Noumena"

Kantian Review 23:1 (2018), 27-40


"Mendelssohn, Kant and the Mereotopology of Immortality" (with Jonathan Simon)

Ergo 4:29 (2017), 821-44


"Kant on Impenetrability, Touch, and the Causal Content of Perception"

European Journal of Philosophy 25:4 (2017), 1411-1433


"Schopenhauer and non-cognitivist moral realism"

Journal of the History of Philosophy 55: 2 (2017), 293–316


"Lockean empathy"

Southern Journal of Philosophy 54:1 (2016), 87-106


"Hume versus the vulgar on resistance, nisus, and the impression of power"

Philosophical Studies 172:2 (2015), 305-319


"Does Kant demand explanations for all synthetic a priori claims?"

Journal of the History of Philosophy 52:3 (2014), 549-576


"Kant's one self and the appearance/thing-in-itself distinction"

Kant-Studien 104:4 (2013), 421-441.


"Kant's appearances and things in themselves as qua-objects"

Philosophical Quarterly 63:252 (2013), 520-545.

-A passage I wish I'd included: "What real progress..." AA 20:291-92.


"Spinoza on destroying passions with reason"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85:1 (2012), 139-160.


"Kant's metaphysics of the self"

Philosophers' Imprint 10:8 (2010), 1-21


"The mind and body as 'one and the same thing' in Spinoza"

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17:5 (2009), 897-919

-A passage I wish I'd included: Descartes' Sixth Replies, CSM 2:285-6, AT 7:423-4.



Book Chapters


"Kant's derivation of the moral 'ought' from a metaphysical 'is'

Sensible and Intelligible Worlds, Nicholas Stang and Karl Schafer (eds.). Oxford University Press (forthcoming).


"Schopenhauer's Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics" (with Kayla Mehl)

The Schopenhauerian Mind, David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll (eds.) (forthcoming)


"Kant on Modality" (with Aaron Barker)

The Oxford Handbook of Kant, Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson (eds.) (forthcoming)


"Schopenhauer's Titus Argument"

Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy, Patrick Hassan (ed.)

Routledge (2021)


"Kant and Spinoza"

Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, Yitzhak Melamed (ed.). Blackwell (2021)



"Schopenhauer and contemporary metaethics"

Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook, Sandra Shapshay (ed.). Palgrave (2018), 239-60


"Moral realism in Spinoza's Ethics"

The Cambridge Critical Guide to Spinoza's Ethics, Yitzhak Melamed (ed.) Cambridge University Press (2017), 248-65


"Reason in the Short Treatise"

The Young Spinoza, Yitzhak Melamed (ed.). Oxford University Press (2015), 133-143.


Public Philosophy


Respectful persuasion is a relay race, not a solo sprint - 3 keys to putting it in practice

The Conversation, May 1, 2022

Reprinted in Government Executive, San Francisco Chronicle, Connecticut Post, Yahoo News, and elsewhere.


Does charitable Kant interpretation buttress Eurocentrism?

Blog of the American Philosophical Association, Sept. 22, 2022


"Helping philosophy students persuade for the November 3 election"

Blog of the American Philosophical Association, Oct. 26, 2020


"In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, what should you say to someone who refuses to wear a mask?"

The Conversation, Aug. 24, 2020

Reprinted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribute, Houston Chronicle, Albany Times-Union, The Hour, Stamford Advocate, Montana Post, and elsewhere.

Book Reviews


"Moral Principles in May’s Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind"

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (forthcoming, with a response by Joshua May)


Melissa Merritt, Kant on Reflection and Virtue

Mind 128:511, July 2019,  1002–1011


Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant on Persons and Agency

Kantian Review (forthcoming)


Lucy Allais, Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism

Virtual Critique, August 2016


Dina Emundts (ed.), Self, World, and Art: Metaphysical Topics in Kant and Hegel

International Yearbook of German Idealism: Bewusstsein/Consciousness, Sally Sedgwick & Dina Emundts (eds.). De Gruyter (2016), 281-85


Corey Dyck. Kant and Rational Psychology.

Virtual Critique 2015.06.24, with a reply by Dyck


Julian Wuerth, Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics

With Spencer Paulson. Kantian Review 20:3 (2015), 512-16.


Nathaniel Goldberg, Kantian Conceptual Geography

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2015)


Karl Ameriks, Kant's Elliptical Path

Philosophy in Review 34:1-2 (2014), 1-3


Yitzhak Melamed, Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought

Leibniz Review 23 (2013), 187-194, with a reply by Melamed


John Skorupski, The Domain of Reasons

Review of Metaphysics 66:4 (2013), 852-854


Patricia Kitcher, Kant's Thinker 

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:6 (2011), 1229-1231


Arthur Melnick, Kant's Theory of the Self

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18:5 (2010), 953-955


Michael N. Forster, Kant and Skepticism

Journal of the History of Philosophy 47:2 (2009), 319-320


Note: Drafts of most papers are  posted on my academia.edu page and my PhilPeople page