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Books:
Moral Responsibility: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press). [In Press - forthcoming 2026]
Recasting Hume & Early Modern Philosophy: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press: 2021).
Reviews of RHEMP:
Annemarie Butler, "Interpretation and Legacy in 18th Century British Philosophy: Book Review of Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy",., Mind. August 2022
"Symposium on Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy": Sképsis 14.26 (2023), 71-139. Contributors: Peter Fosl, Todd Ryan, and Claude Gautier .
J.H. Spence, Choice: Vol. 59, No. 11, July 2022.
Annemarie Butler, "Interpretation and Legacy in 18th Century British Philosophy: Book Review of Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy", Mind. August 2022 .
Catherine Dromelet, Hume Studies: 50.1: 175-180. April, 2025.
Elena Yi-Jia Zeng, Journal of Scottish Philosophy: 22.3: 254-259. September 2024.
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The Limits of Free Will: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press: 2017).
Reviews of LFW:
Hans Krauch, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Sep 25th 2018 (Volume 22, Issue 39).
Lorenzo Greco, RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA / vol. CIX, n. 3, dicembre 2018
Richard Baron, Philosophical Quarterly, online January 2019.
Robyn Repko Waller, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (March 2019)
Jenann Ismael, Fate's scales, quivering [ Times Literary Supplement: August 2019]
Meghan Griffith, Ethics, 130:3, 469-474 (2020).
Samuel Reis-Dennis, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 18 (2
Symposium on The Limits of Free Will: in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24.1 (2021): 317--373
Ezio Di Nucci, Limits of Responsibility?, 317-319.
Robert Wallace, "The Tension in Critical Compatibilism", 321-332.
Angela Smith, "Responsibility, Reactive Attitudes and 'The Morality System'", 333-345
Christopher Bennett, "Russell on Naturalism and Practical Reason" , 347-356
Paul Russell, Replies to Bennett, Smith and Wallace, 357-373.
The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2008).
Published in paperback 2010 with a new foreword.
Awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy book prize for the best published book in the history of philosophy in 2008.
Chinese translation: “Hume’s irreligious aims and objectives” [from Chap. 18] In World Philosophy, 1.2015 (trans. by Xiaoping Zeng, Wuhan University).
Reviews of RHT:
Rico Vitz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [ 27/07/08]
Andrew Pyle, Philosophy in Review, 28.6 (2008), 429-31.
Mark G. Spencer, Enlightenment and Dissent, 24 (2008), 135-8.
Michel Malherbe, Hume Studies, 34.2 (2008): 305-08
Times Literary Supplement, February 6, 2009 [“On Target”, James Harris].
Peter Kail, Review of Metaphysics (June, 2009): 944-6.
J.W. McNabb, Eighteenth Century Fiction, 22.1 (Fall 2009): 151-154.
James Harris, “Of Hobbes and Hume”, Philosophical Books (Sep. 2009), 38-46.
Kenneth R. Stunkel, The European Legacy, 14.6 (2009): 737-8.
Don Garrett, Philosophical Review, 119.1 (2010): 108-112.
Eugenio Lecaldano, Rivista di Filosofia, (2010).
Colin Heydt, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 48.3 (2010): 401-402.
Peter Millican, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 19.2 (2011), 348-53.
David Pailin, The Journal of Theological Studies, 62 (2011).
Lorenzo Greco, The Philosophical Quarterly, 62 (2012), 432-35.
Eric Schliesser, Hopos, 3 (2013), 172-75.
Kevin Meeker, Mind, 124 (2015), 675-79.
Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Published in paperback, 2002.
[Nominated for the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2000.]
Reviews of FMS:
Kenneth Richman, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 36 (1996), 371-3.
Peter S. Fosl, Eighteenth Century Scotland (Spring 1996).
Donald Ainslie, Philosophical Review, 107 (1997), 596-9.
Terence Penelhum, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 28 (1998), 81-94. [Critical Notice]
Ira Singer, Ethics, 109 (1999), 459-61.
Nathan Brett, Dialogue, 68 (1999), 659-62.
Vere Chappell, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59 (1999), 263-5.
Kathleen Schmitt, Hume Studies, 25 (1999), 263-65.
Robert Shaver, International Studies in Philosophy, 36 (2004), 280-01.
Books Edited and Introduced:
Hume's 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion': A Critical Guide Edited and Introduced. Cambridge University Press. [forthcoming]
The Oxford Handbook of HUME Edited and Introduced. (Oxford University Press: 2016).
Reviews of OHH:
Gregory F.W. Todd, Metapsychology Online Reviews, 09.08 (2016).
C. S. Johnson, Choice, October 2016 Vol. 54 No. 2
Jonathan Cottrell, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (September 2017).
Katie Paxman, Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 17(1): 93–99.
The Philosophy of Free Will: Essential Readings from the Contemporary Debates Introduced and edited with Oisin Deery (Oxford University Press: 2013).
Reviews of PFW:
William Simkulet, Metapsychology Online Reviews, 18.11 (2014).
Harry van den Bouwhuuiijsen, Tilschrift voor Filosofie, 76 (2014), 390 - .
Free Will and Reactive Attitudes: Perspectives on P.F. Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment” Introduced and edited with Michael McKenna (Farnham: Ashgate: 2008).
[ Reissued and published in paperback by Routledge, 2016.]
Reviews of FWRA:
Ishtiyaque Haji, Philosophical Quarterly, 60.238 (2010), 213-18.
Lindsay Kelland, Philosophical Papers, 39.1 (2010), 135-40.
Willem, Lemmens, Ethical Perspectives, 18 (2011), 150-51.
Bradford McCall, The Heythrop Journal, 52.2 (2011), 340-1
Joseph J. Russell, Analysis and Dialectic: Studies in the Logic of Foundation Problems, Introduced and edited by P. Russell (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1984).
Articles and Papers:
[Forthcoming]
"Deep Responsibility and 'Morality'", in Themes from Wolf, edited by M. Frauchiger and M. Stepanians. Berlin : De Gruyter. [Forthcoming]
2025
"Ambiguity and 'Atheism' in Hume's Dialogues". In Hume's 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion': A Critical Guide Edited and Introduced by P. Russell. Cambridge University Press, 179-195.
"Recasting Responsibility: Hume and Williams". In Marcel van Ackeren & Matthieu Florian Queloz (eds.), Making Sense of the Past: Bernard Williams and the History of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 155-176.
2024
"Responsibility After 'Morality': Strawson's Naturalism and Williams' Genealogy". P. F. Strawson and His Legacy. A. Bengtson, B. De Mesel and S. Heyndels, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp.234-259.
2023
Precis of Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy. Book Symposium: Paul Russell, Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). Sképsis: Revista de Filosofia, 14. 26: 71-73 . With replies to critics: Peter Fosl (pp. 77-95), Claude Gautier (pp. 96-111) , and Todd Ryan (pp.112-122).
Review of David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp & Mark A. Box. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 2021. In Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2022
“Free Will and the Tragic Predicament: Making Sense of Williams", in Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams. A. Szigeti & M. Talbert, eds. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 161-181.
'Moral Responsibility and Existential Attitudes”, In The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility. D. Nelkin and D. Pereboom, eds. Oxford University Press: New York, 519-543.
2021
"David Hume and the Philosophy of Religion", in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia for Philosophy of Religion. Eds. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferr.
"Self-help on the go: Sketches of 'le bon David' and the good life". Review of Julian Baggini's The Great Guide: What David Hume can teach us about being human and living well, for the Times Literary Supplement (September 24, 2021).
"Responsibility Skepticism and Strawson's Naturalism". [Review Essay on Pamela Hieronmyi, Freedom, Resentment and the Metaphysics of Morals] ; Ethics, 131.4 (2021), 754-776.
“Hume’s Scepticism and the Problem of Atheism”. In P. Russell, Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy: Selected Essays. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 303-339.
"The Misuse of Morality"; Review of Grandstanding, by J. Tosi & B. Warmke, for the Times Literary Supplement. [April 2021]
The Limits of Free Will: Replies to Bennett, Smith and Wallace, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 24 (2021), 357-373.
2020
Introduction to Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion [Dialoger om naturlig religion]. Translated into Swedish by Jan Landgren. Nya Doxa: Nora (Sweden).
"'True Religion' and Hume's Practical Atheism", In Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought: A New Pan-American Dialogue, V. Rosaleny & P. Smith, eds. Springer: Dordrecht. Pp. 191-225
-- “Hume on Free Will”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (Winter 2007 Edition; substantial revision May 2020), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
URL = < https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-freewill/ >.
-- "Vice Dressed as Virtue", AEON, May 2020
2019
“Hume’s Optimism and Williams’ Pessimism”, in Ethics beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. S. G. Chappell and M. van Ackeren, eds. Routledge: London. Pp. 37-52.
2018
"Bernard Williams: Ethics from a Human Point of View" -- in TLS "Footnotes to Plato". [December 2018]
[Review of] Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought. For Rivista di Filosofia. 106.2 (2018), 485-492.
“Free Will and Affirmation: Assessing Honderich’s Third Way”, in Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity. G. Caruso, ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 159-79.
[Review of] Hume’s Critique of Religion: Sick Men’s Dreams. Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien. Philosophical Quarterly.
2017
“Free Will Pessimism”. Vitterhetsakademien Yearbook 2017/ Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Pp. 47-63. [This is paper is based on a nlinvited ecture given to the Swedish Academy, and which was itself based on a paper with the same title published in D. Shoemaker, ed. Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility [Oxford: 2017].)
"Free Will Pessimism". In Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 4, edited by David Shoemaker. Oxford University Press. Pp. 93-120.
“Free Will and Moral Sense: Strawsonian Approaches”, in Meghan Griffith, Neal Levy, Kevin Timpe, eds. Routledge Companion to Free Will. Pp. 96-108.
"The Limits of Tolerance", AEON. [August 2017]
[Review of] Conversation and Responsibility, Michael McKenna. Philosophical Review, 126.2 (2017), 285-95.
[Review of] Towards a Humean True Religion, Andrew Willis. For Journal of the History of Philosophy, 55.1 (2017), 168-9.
2016
“Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British Empiricism”, The Oxford Handbook of HUME, P. Russell, ed. Oxford University Press. Pp.109-37.
Review of James Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography - in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (June 2016).
2015
“’Hume’s Lengthy Digression’: Free Will in the Treatise”, Hume’s Treatise: A Critical Guide, A. Butler & D. Ainslie, eds. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 230-51.
2013
“Responsibility, Naturalism and ‘the Morality System’”, Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, D. Shoemaker, ed. Oxford University Press. Pp.184-204.
“Causation, Cosmology and the Limits of Reason”, The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century, James Harris, ed. Oxford University Press. Pp.599-620.
“Hume’s Anatomy of Virtue”, The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics. Daniel Russell, ed. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 92-123.
"A Dialogue on Free Will" [An Interview], Methode, Vol2, No.3: pp.170-178. [eds. S.Bonacalzi and M. De Caro]
2012
“Hume’s Legacy and the Idea of British Empiricism”, The Continuum Companion to David Hume, Alan Bailey and Dan O'Brien, eds. Continuum. Pp. 377-95.
2011
“Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility”, The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, 2nd ed., Robert Kane, ed. Oxford University Press. Pp. 199-220.
“The Free Will Problem” [Hobbes/Bramhall debate]; invited contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, eds. Desmond Clarke and Catherine Wilson. Oxford University Press. Pp. 425- 444. [Chinese translation in preparation by Shinggui Mao.]
2010
“Selective Hard Compatibilism”, in Joseph Campbell, Michael O’Rourke and Harry Silverstein, eds., Action, Ethics and Responsibility: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 7. MIT Press. Pp. 149-73.
[Review of] The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding, by Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott. For The Times Literary Supplement [19 November, 2010/ No. 5616, p.29]
2008
“Free Will, Art and Morality”, The Journal of Ethics, 12 (2008), 307-325.
2007
“Hume on Free Will”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (Winter 2007 Edition; revised September 2014 and May 2020), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
URL = < http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2007/entries/hume-freewill/ >.
“Traktat Hume’a i problem cnotliwego ateizmu” [“Hume’s Treatise and the Problem of Virtuous Atheism”], Nowa Krytyka, 20/21 (2007), 333-380. Tomasz Sieczkowski, ed.; translation by Mateusz Oleksy and Tomasz Sieczkowski.
“Hume’s Lucretian Mission: Is it Self-Refuting?”, Monist, 90 (2007). 182-199.
[Reprinted in Tito Magri and David Owen, eds., Humean Readings (Rome: Storia & Letteratura, 2012). ]
2006
“Moral Sense and Virtue in Hume’s Ethics”, in Tim Chappell, ed., Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism and Contemporary Ethics. Clarendon Press. Pp. 154-166.
“Practical Reason and Motivational Scepticism”, in Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, Dieter Schönecker, eds., Moralische Motivation. Kant und die Alternativen. Kant-Forschungen 16.2006. VIII, 350 Seiten. (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag. Pp. 287-296.
[Chinese translation, in Xiangdong Xu, ed., Practical Reason, (Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2012).]
2005
“L’irreligione e lo spettatore imparziale nel sistema morale di Adam Smith” [Irreligion and the Impartial Spectator in Smith’s Moral System], translated by E. Lecaldano. Rivista di Filosofia , 3 (2005), 375-403.
"Foreword" for Maureen Sie, Justifying Blame: Why Free Will Matters and Why it Does Not. Value Inquiry Book Series. (Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, 2005).
"Hume on Religion", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (Winter 2005 Edition; revised February 2013; and revised by Anders Kraal, 2017), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = < http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/ >
2004
“Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense”, Philosophical Topics, 32 (2004), 287-305. [Special Issue on Agency, ed. J.M. Fischer]
“Butler’s ‘Future State’ and Hume’s ‘Guide of Life’”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42 (2004), 425-448.
“William Dudgeon”, New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: 2004).
2003
“The Material World and Natural Religion in Hume’s Treatise”, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 85 (2003), 269-303.
[Review of] Rupert Read and Kenneth Richmond, eds., The New Hume Debate: Journal of the History of Philosophy, 41 (2003), 132-134.
2002
Critical Notice of John M. Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Responsibility and Control, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 32 (2002), 587-606.
“Pessimists, Pollyannas and the New Compatibilism”, in Robert Kane, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Free Will. Oxford University Press. Pp. 229-256.
2000
"Compatibilist-Fatalism", in Ton van den Beld, ed. Moral Responsibility and Ontology. Kluwer. Pp. 199-218.
Reprinted in The Philosophy of Free Will: Essential Readings from the Contemporary Debates, P. Russell & O. Deery, eds. Oxford University Press: 2013. Pp 450-68.
1999
"Smith on Moral Sentiment and Moral Luck", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 16 (1999), 37-58.
"William Dudgeon", in John Yolton, John V. Price, and John Stephens eds., Dictionary of Eighteenth Century Thought (Routledge & Thoemmes, 1999), 296-8.
[Review of] Samuel Clarke's A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God (1704), edited by Ezio Vailati: Ethics, 109 (1999), 942. [Book Note]
1997
"Clarke's 'Almighty Space' and Hume's Treatise", Enlightenment and Dissent, 16 (1997), 83-113.
"Free Will", an article in Edward Barbanell and Don Garrett, eds., The Encyclopedia of Empiricism (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997), 107-111.
"Wishart, Baxter and Hume's Letter from a Gentleman", Hume Studies, 23 (1997), 245-276.
1995
"Hume's Treatise and the Clarke-Collins Controversy", Hume Studies, 21 (1995), 95-115.
[Review of] J.J. MacIntosh and H.A. Meynell, Faith, Scepticism and Personal Identity: A Festschrift for Terence Penelhum: Hume Studies, 21 (1995), 351-54.
1993
"Epigram, Pantheists and Freethought in Hume's Treatise: A Study in Esoteric Communication", Journal of the History of Ideas, 54 (1993), 659-73.
"Critical Notice of Annette Baier, A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 23 (1993), 107-23.
1992
"Strawson's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility", Ethics, 101 (1992), 287-302.
Reprinted in:
(a) John M. Fischer, ed., Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, 4 Vols. (Routledge, 2005), Vol. 1, Free Will: Concepts and Challenges;
(b) M. McKenna & P. Russell, eds, Free Will and Reactive Attitudes: Perspectives on Strawson’s ‘Freedom and Resentment’ (Ashgate: 2008).
(c) Reprinted in and translated as: 'A felelősség strawsoni naturalizálása,' In: Readings in Free Will and Moral Responsibility, edited by Anna Réz, translation by Mate Veres. Budapest: Gondolat (2013): 305-322.
1991
[Review of] John W. Danford's David Hume and the Problem of Reason: Recovering the Human Sciences: Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 11 (1991), 168-70.
[Review of] Nicholas Capaldi's Hume's Place in Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Books, 32 (1991), 213-6.
[Review of] Vincent Hope's Virtue by Consensus: Ethics, 101 (1991), 873-5.
1990
"Hume on Responsibility and Punishment", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 20 (1990), 539-564.
Reprinted in:
(a) J. Dunn and I. Harris, eds., Hume: Great Political Thinkers, Section 1 (Edward Elgar: 1997).]
(b) Ken Mackinnon, ed., Hume and Law (Ashgate: 2012)
"A Hobbist Tory: Johnson on Hume", Hume Studies, 16 (1990), 75-79.
[Review of] Jean Hampton's Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition: Journal of the History of Philosophy, 27 (1989), 620 - 622.
1988
"Causation, Compulsion and Compatibilism", American Philosophical Quarterly, 25 (1988), 313 - 321.
“'Atheism' and the Title-Page of Hume's Treatise", Hume Studies, 14 (1988), 408 - 423.
"Skepticism and Natural Religion in Hume's Treatise", Journal of the History of Ideas, 49 (1988), 247 - 265.
[Review of] Antony Flew's David Hume: Philosopher of Moral Science: Philosophical Books, 29 (1988), 27 - 30.
1987
"Nozick, Need and Charity", Journal of Applied Philosophy, 4 (1987), 205 - 216.
"Moral Sentiment and the Rationale of Responsibility: A critical study of Hume's theory"/ Cambridge University PhD (1987) Supervisor: Bernard Williams
1986
"Locke on Express and Tacit Consent: Misinterpretations and Inconsistencies", Political Theory, 14 (1986), 291- 306.
-- Reprinted in J.R.Milton, ed., Locke's Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy (Ashgate, 1999), 465-482.
[Review of] Robert Fogelin's Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature: Mind, 95 (1986), 392 - 396.
1985
"Hume's Treatise and Hobbes's The Elements of Law", Journal of the History of Ideas, 46 (1985), 51 - 64.
1984
"Hume's 'Reconciling Project': A Reply to Flew", Mind, 94 (1985), 587 - 590.
[A reply to Anthony Flew, "Paul Russell on Hume's 'Reconciling Project'", Mind, 93 (1984), 587-8.]
"Sorabji and the Dilemma of Determinism", Analysis, 44 (1984), 166 - 172.
"Hume's 'Two Definitions' of Cause and the Ontology of 'Double Existence'", Hume Studies, 10 (1984), 1 - 25.
- Reprinted in S. Tweyman, ed., David Hume: Critical Assessments, 6 Vols. (Routledge: 1995), Vol.3, 416-33.
1983
"The Naturalism of Hume's 'Reconciling Project'", Mind, 92 (1983), 593-600.
Papers in Progress
(1) Compatibilism, Moral Standing and Manipulation
(2) Skepticism and Responsibility
(3)
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