Papers

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Here are links to PDFs of some of my recent papers and some old favorites.

Sole Authored Papers

    • Empathy and Evaluative Inquiry, Chicago-Kent Law Review: Symposium on Law, Psychology and the Emotions 74 No. 4 (2000): 1467-1500.

  • Two Arguments for Sentimentalism, “Two Arguments for Sentimentalism” Philosophical Issues, Vol. 15 (2005) 1-21.

    • Relationality, Relativism and Realism about Moral Value, Philosophical Studies Vol. 126, No. 3 (2005): 433-448.

    • Empathy, Approval and Disapproval in Moral Sentimentalism, Southern Journal of Philosophy 49, Spindel Conference Supp. (2011).

    • Value and the Regulation of the Sentiments, forthcoming in Philosophical Studies 2013. Available to those with access to Springer journals here.

    • Sex, Fairness and the Theory of Games, Journal of Philosophy 93 (December, 1996): 615-627.

    • Envy, Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy [First published, 2002. Revision Autumn 2008.]

Papers Co-Authored with Daniel Jacobson

  • The Moralistic Fallacy: On the 'Appropriateness' of Emotions, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXI No. 1 (July 2000): 65-90.

  • The Significance of Recalcitrant Emotion (Or Anti-QuasiJudgmentalism). Philosophy, Supp. 52 (2003) 127-145.

  • Anthropocentric Constraints on Human Value. Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 1 (2005): 99-126.

    • "Demystifying Sensibilities: Sentimental Values and the Instability of Affect” with Daniel Jacobson. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Peter Goldie, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) pp. 585-613.

  • Wrong Kinds of Reason and the Opacity of Normative Force forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 9

  • Sentimentalism and Scientism forthcoming in D'Arms and Jacobson eds. Moral Psychology and Human Agency, OUP.

A paper on evolutionary explanation of human behavior, and in particular of the sense of Justice, written with Bob Batterman and Kris Górny.

    • Game Theoretic Explanations and the Evolution of Justice , Philosophy of Science 65 (March, 1998): 76-102.

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