Hello, my name is Stephen Kearns. I'm a professor at Florida State University. I gained my B.Phil and D.Phil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. My wife is Marcela Herdova, who is also a philosopher. Here's a list of my philosophy papers (see also https://philpeople.org/profiles/stephen-kearns).
Published Papers
In praise of folly (Analysis)
Compatibilism can resist prepunishment (Analysis)
Reasons: Explanations or Evidence? (Ethics) with Daniel Star
Epistemicism about Vagueness and Meta-linguistic Safety (Philosophical Perspectives) with Ofra Magidor
Reasons as Evidence (Oxford Studies in Metaethics) with Daniel Star
Can a thing be part of itself? (American Philosophical Quarterly)
Responsibility for Necessities (Philosophical Studies)
Semantic Sovereignty (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research) with Ofra Magidor
Aborting the Zygote Argument (Philosophical Studies)
On Good Advice (Analysis) with Daniel Star
Weighing Reasons (Journal of Moral Philosophy) with Daniel Star
Reasons, Facts-About-Evidence, and Indirect Evidence (Analytic Philosophy) with Daniel Star
Free Will Agnosticism (Nous)
Bearing the Weight of Reasons (in Weighing Reasons, OUP, ed. Lord and Maguire)
Have Compatibilists Solved the Luck Problem for Libertarians? (in Philosophical Inquiries) with Alfred Mele
Reasons, Choice and Responsibility (forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, ed. D. Star)
Get Lucky (Philosophical Explorations) with Marcela Herdova
This is a Tricky Situation (The Journal of Ethics) with Marcela Herdova
Finding the Value in Things (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)
Weighing Explanations (Weighing and Reasoning, ed Hirose and Reisner)
Philosonnets (Think!)
Mind Control (Surrounding Self-Control, ed. A. Mele) with Marcela Herdova
Difficult Circumstances (Journal of Ethical Urban Living) with Marcela Herdova
Critical Notice of Being, Freedom and Method (Analysis)
Meno, Know-How: Oh No, What Now? (Australasian Journal of Philosophy)
The Bishop's Church: Berkeley's Master Argument and the Paradox of Knowability (Canadian Journal of Philosophy)
LeMans's Gontological Argument (Analysis)
A Modified Meditation: Exploring a Grounding Modal Ontological Argument (Religious Studies)
Identity: This Time it's Personal (Inquiry)
Tit for Tat for Tit; On Reactive Loops and Regresses (Analysis)
A Range of Reasons (Asian Journal of Philosophy) with Daniel Star
A Sense of Freedom: Free Will in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy and Sartre's Being and Nothingness (Handbook of the Science of Existential Psychology) with Alfred Mele
Published Book
Self-Control (Routledge), with Marcela Herdova and Neil Levy
Published Book Reviews
Incompatibilism's Allure, by Ishtiyaque Haji (Philosophical Review)
The Metaphysics of Everyday Life, by Lynne Rudder-Baker (Philosophical Review)
Types and Tokens, by Linda Wetzel (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
Free Will and Modern Science, ed. Richard Swinburne (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
Causation and Free Will, by Carolina Sartorio (Ethics)
Responsibility from the Margins, by David Shoemaker (Analysis)
Free Will and Epistemology, by Robert Lockie (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
Reasons First, by Mark Schroeder (Mind)