Papers

Publications

"Bayesian Confirmation and Commonsense Notions of Evidential Strength" (with Derek Powell) 2023 in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

"Three Forms of Actualist Direct Consequentialism" 2023 in Utilitas (draft)

""Adding Up" Reasons: Lessons for Reductive and Non-Reductive Approaches"  2021 in Ethics (draft, supplement 1)

"Deontic Logic and Ethics " 2021 in Dov Gabbay , John Horty, Xavier Parent, Ron van der Meyden, and Leon van der Torre Eds. Handbook of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems Volume 2. (draft)

"Fault Lines in Ethical Theory" 2020 in Douglas Portmore Eds. Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (draft)

"Bootstrapping, Dogmatism, and the Structure of Epistemic Justification" 2019 in Ergo

"Must Good Reasoning Satisfy Cumulative Transitivity?" 2019 in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (draft, supplement)

"The Logic of Reasons" 2018 in Daniel Star Eds. Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity with John Horty (draft)

"Conflicting Reasons, Unconflicting 'Ought's" 2016 in Philosophical Studies (draft)

"How Do Reasons Accrue?" 2016 in Errol Lord and Barry Maguire Eds. Weighing Reasons (draft)

"Moral Dilemmas" 2015 in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (draft)

"A Fault Line in Ethical Theory" 2014 in Philosophical Perspectives (draft)

"Consequences of Reasoning with Conflicting Obligations" 2014 in Mind (draft, talk)

"Philosophy's New Challenge" 2011 in Mind and Language with Ángel Pinillos, Nick Smith, Peter Marchetto, and Cecilea Mun (draft)

Work in Progress

A project about Stew Cohen's work (on bootstrapping and pragmatic encroachment) and failures of cumulative transitivity (promised)

A project about reasons or confirmation first approach to probabilities (in progress; builds on the work in ""Adding Up" Reasons")

A project comparing different reasons-based theories of obligation and optimality (in progress, preliminary version given as a talk at DEON 2020/21). Includes a related project about directed obligation and whether there is a similar notion of directed optimality

A project comparing value-based theories of obligation (in progress; builds on the work in "Fault Lines in Ethical Theory")

A project about the relationship between the derivative/non-derivative reasons distinction and the subjective/objective reasons distinction (in progress)