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Epistemology and Methodology in Ethics
A short book introducing central topics in these fields. Cambridge University Press, 2020
Co-edited Volumes:
Metaethics 2.0: Essays on Michael Smith's Rational Ethics (forthcoming, co-editor with Errol Lord and Barry Maguire, Edinburgh University Press)
Philosophy and Climate Change (2021, co-editor with Mark Budolfson and David Plunkett, Oxford university Press)
This is a volume of new essays on a variety of philosophical questions arising in the context of climate change.
The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (2017, co-editor, with David Plunkett, Routledge)
This volume surveys the terrain of contemporary metaethics in forty-four specially commissioned chapters.
Articles
52. Superintelligent AI and the Foundations of Ethics
(co-authored with David Plunkett) forthcoming in Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (Eds. Rachel Sterken and Herman Cappelen), Oxford University Press
51. Authoritative Normativity (co-authored with David Plunkett)
forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Metaethics (Eds. David Copp and Connie Rosati)
50. How Much does Knowledge Matter? (co-authored with David Plunkett)
forthcoming in Kornblith and Critics (Eds. Josh Di Paolo, Luis Oliviera), Blackwell
49. After Metaethics (co-authored with David Plunkett)
forthcoming in Philosophers Imprint (open access!)
48. Conceptual Ethics, Metaepistemology, and Normative Epistemology (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Inquiry 68(7), 2025 (open access!)
47. Moral Concepts, Inefficacy, and Collective Action
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 15 (Ed. Mark Timmons), 2025
46. Meaninglessness and the Ethics of Lexical Abandonment
(symposium paper on Cappelen's Concept of Democracy)
Asian Journal of Philosophy 4(19), 2025 (open access!)
45. The Supervenience of the Normative and the Autonomy of Essence (co-authored with David Plunkett)
The Future of Normativity (Ed. Simon Kirchin), 2025
44. Conceptual Ethics and The Categories of “Ideal Theory” and “Non-Ideal Theory” in Political Philosophy: A Proposal for Abandonment (co-authored with David Plunkett)
forthcoming in New Perspectives in Conceptual Engineering Volume 2: Conceptual Engineering across Philosophy (Eds Manuel Gustavo Isaac, Stephen Koch and Kevin Scharp, Springer)
43. Fragmentation of Authoritative Normativity (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 19 (Ed. Russ Shafer-Landau), Oxford University Press, 2024
42. Topic Continuity in Conceptual Engineering and Beyond (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Inquiry 67(9), 2024 (open access!)
41. Counterfactual genealogy and metaethics in Pettit’s Birth of Ethics (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Inquiry 67:8 (2024) (open access!)
40. Normative Standards and the Epistemology of Conceptual Ethics (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Inquiry 67(3): special issue on conceptual engineering and pragmatism, 2024
(open access!)
39. Metaethics and the Conceptual Ethics of Normativity (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Inquiry 67(1), 2024 (open access!)
38. Metaphysical Structure for Moral Realists
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism (Eds. Paul Bloomfield and David Copp), 2023
37. Ground, Essence, and the Metaphysics of Metanormative Non-naturalism (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Ergo 9(26), 2022 (open access!)
36. Expressivism without Minimalism
Meaning, Decision and Norms: Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard (Eds. William Dunaway and David Plunkett, Maize Books {University of Michigan]), 2022. Open access! The entire book is available HERE
Link to related discussion on Pea Soup, October 2017
35. Evaluation Turned on Itself (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 16 (Ed. Russ Shafer-Landau), Oxford University Press, 2021
34. The Puzzle of Inefficacy
Philosophy and Climate Change (Eds Mark Budolfson, Tristram McPherson, and David Plunkett), Oxford University Press, 2021
33. Deliberative Authority and Representational Determinacy
Ergo 6(45), 2020 (open access!)
32. Ardent Realism without Referential Normativity
Inquiry 63(5): 2020; part of a symposium on Matti Eklund's Choosing Normative Concepts
31. Conceptual Ethics and the Methodology of Normative Inquiry (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Conceptual Ethics and Conceptual Engineering (Eds. Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen, and David Plunkett, Oxford University Press), 2020
(Open Access! This entire volume is available to everyone at the above link)
30. Evaluative Predicates as Classificatory Devices?
Philosophical Studies 176:(6): 2019 (Oberlin Colloquium issue)
29. Veganism as a Food Ethic (co-authored with Corey Katz)
Handbook of Eating and Drinking (Ed. Herb Meiselman, Springer), 2019
28. Moral Steadfastness and Metaethics (co-authored with Jamie Fritz)
American Philosophical Quarterly 56(1); Special Issue: Nature and Implications of Disagreement, 2019 (Issue Eds. Michele Palmira and Sarah Stroud)
27. Explaining Practical Normativity
Topoi 37(4): Special Issue: Ethics with Ontology, 2018
26. Naturalistic Moral Realism, Moral Rationalism, and Non-Fundamental Epistemology
The Many Moral Rationalisms (Eds. Karen Jones and Francois Schroeter, Oxford University Press), 2018
25. Authoritatively Normative Concepts
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 13 (Ed. Russ Shafer-Landau), 2018
24. The Ethical Basis for Veganism
The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (Eds. Anne Barnhill, Tyler Doggett, and Mark Budolfson, Oxford University Press), 2018
23. What do you Mean "This isn't the Question"? (co-authored with David Enoch)
Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 47 No. 6, 2017. Part of a symposium on T. M. Scanlon's book Being Realistic About Reasons, with a reply from Scanlon
22. The Nature and Explanatory Ambitions of Metaethics (co-authored with David Plunkett)
The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Eds McPherson and Plunkett), 2017
21. Ethical Judgment and Motivation (co-authored with David Faraci)
The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Eds Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett), 2017
20. Reference Magnetism as a Solution to the Moral Twin Earth Problem (co-authored with Billy Dunaway)
Ergo Vol 3 No. 25, 2016. (open access!)
19. Engineering Social Justice into Traffic Control for Self-Driving Vehicles? (co-authored with Miloš Mladenović; I am second author)
Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics Vol. 22 No. 4, 2016
18. How to Argue for (and against) Ethical Veganism
Food, Ethics, and Society ( Eds. Anne Barnhill, Tyler Doggett, and Mark Budolfson), 2016
The Moral Life (Eds. Louis Pojman and Lewis Vaughn), 2017
Doing Ethics (Ed. Lewis Vaughn), 2018
This paper uses veganism as a topic with which to introduce argumentative philosophical writing. This paper was written to be used in undergraduate teaching; you are encouraged to consider using it for that purpose!
17. Supervenience in Ethics
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( Ed. Edward N. Zalta), 2015, revised 2019 (open access!)
16. A Moorean Defense of the Omnivore?
The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat (Eds. Ben Bramble and Robert Fischer. Oxford University Press, 2015)
15. Why I am a Vegan (and you should be one too)
Philosophy Comes to Dinner (Eds. Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, and Matthew Halteman. Routledge, 2015)
This paper was written to be used in undergraduate teaching; you are encouraged to consider using it for that purpose!
14. The Methodological Irrelevance of Reflective Equilibrium
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophical Methods (Ed. Christopher Daly. Palgrave 2015)
13. Deliberative Indispensability and Epistemic Justification (co-authored with David Plunkett)
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. 10 (Ed. Russ Shafer-Landau. Oxford University Press 2015)
12. What is at Stake in Debates among Normative Realists?
Noûs Vol 49 No. 1 (2015)
11. Moral Attitudes for Non-cognitivists (co-authored with Gunnar Bjornsson)
Mind Vol. 123 No. 489 (2014)
10. Ethical Principles for the Design of Next-Generation Traffic Control Technologies
(co-authored with Miloš Mladenović)
Virginia Tech ISCE Applied Ethics Initiative White Paper
9. A Case for Ethical Veganism: Intuitive and methodological considerations
Journal of Moral Philosophy Vol. 11 No. 6 (2014)
8. Semantic Challenges to Normative Realism
Philosophy Compass Vol. 8 No. 2, (February 2013)
7. Unifying Moral Methodology
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 93 No. 4 (December 2012)
6. Ethical Non-naturalism and the Metaphysics of Supervenience
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 7 (Ed. Russ Shafer Landau. Oxford University Press 2012)
5. Mark Schroeder's Hypotheticalism: Agent-neutrality, Moral Epistemology and Methodology
Philosophical Studies Vol. 157 No. 3 (December 2012) - Symposium on Mark Schroeder's Slaves of the Passions
4. Against Quietist Normative Realism
Philosophical Studies Vol 154. No 2. (June 2011)
3. Unnatural Normativity? Critical Notice of Ralph Wedgwood's The Nature of Normativity
Philosophical Books Vol. 50 No. 2 (April 2009)
2. Moorean Arguments and Moral Revisionism
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy Vol. 3 No. 2 (June 2009) (open access!)
1. Metaethics and the Autonomy of Morality
Philosophers' Imprint Vol. 8 No. 6 (July 2008) (open access!)
Short reviews and encyclopedia entries:
Review of John Bengson, Terence Cuneo, and Russ Shafer-Landau's Philosophical Methodology
Ethics 135(3), 2025
Review of Jeff Sebo's Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves
Philosophical Review 134(1), 2025
Review of Matti Eklund's Choosing Normative Concepts
Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 2018 (open access!)
The Open Question Argument
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015
Quietism
International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2013
A priori ethical knowledge
International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2013
Review of Oxford Studies in Metaethics Vol. V
Ethics Vol. 121 No. 4 (July 2011)
Review of Mark Kalderon, Moral Fictionalism
Philosophical Review Vol. 117 No. 3 (July 2008)
Dissertation:
For Unity in Moral Theorizing
Princeton University Dissertation (July 2008)
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