Publications

Many of these are open access, and a link is available at google scholar. Or at philpeople/philpapers, where there is usually an uploaded pdf. If the link isn't available for some reason I probably have a pdf - e-mail me.

Books

The Shape of Agency: Control, Skill, Action, Knowledge, 2021, Oxford University Press. [free pdf here]

*Author meets critics at Eastern APA, Jan. 2021, with Sarah Paul, Kim Frost, and Andrei Buckareff, at https://philpapers.org/rec/FROAAM-3 

Consciousness and Moral Status, 2018, Routledge. [free on-line here]

Journal articles, chapters, etc.

Bayne, T., Seth, A.K., Massimini, M., Shepherd, J., Cleeremans, A., Fleming, S.M., Malach, R., Mattingley, J.B., Menon, D.K., Owen, A.M., Peters, M.A.K., Razi, A., Mudrik, L. (2024). Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.01.010.

Shepherd, J. (2024). Sentience, vulcans, and zombies: The value of phenomenal consciousness. AI & Society, 1-11.

Shepherd, J. (2023). Non-human moral status: Problems with phenomenal consciousness. AJOB neuroscience, 14(2), 148-157.

*Target article. Responses in Volume 14, Issue 2: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uabn20/14/2

Shepherd, J., & Carter, J. A. (2023). Knowledge, Practical Knowledge, and Intentional Action. Ergo, 9.

Brod, G., Kucirkova, N., Shepherd, J., Jolles, D., & Molenaar, I. (2023). Agency in educational technology: Interdisciplinary perspectives and implications for learning design. Educational Psychology Review, 35(1), 25.

Carter, J. A., & Shepherd, J. (2023). Intentional action and knowledge-centered theories of control. Philosophical Studies, 180(3), 957-977.

Shepherd, J. (2023). Conscious cognitive effort in cognitive control. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 14(2), e1629.

Mandelbaum, E., Dunham, Y., Feiman, R., Firestone, C., Green, E. J., Harris, D., Kibbe, M.M., Kurdi, B., Mylopoulos, M., Shepherd, J. and Wellwood, A., & Quilty‐Dunn, J. (2022). Problems and mysteries of the many languages of thought. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13225.

Shepherd, J. (2022). Bodily skill. In Adrian J.T. Alsmith and Matthew Longo (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness (pp. 309-320). Routledge.

Shepherd, J. (2022). Flow and the dynamics of conscious thought. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 21(4), 969-988.

Shepherd, J. (2022). Disappearing agents, mental action, rational glue. In Michael Brent and Lisa Miracchi Titus (eds.), Mental Action and the Conscious Mind (pp. 14-30). Routledge.

Shepherd, J. (2022). Practical structure and moral skill. The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(3), 713-732.

Sawai, T., Hayashi, Y., Niikawa, T., Shepherd, J., Thomas, E., Lee, T. L., Erler, A., Watanabe, M. & Sakaguchi, H. (2022). Mapping the ethical issues of brain organoid research and application. AJOB Neuroscience, 13(2), 81-94.

Niikawa, T., Hayashi, Y., Shepherd, J., & Sawai, T. (2022). Human brain organoids and consciousness. Neuroethics, 15(1), 5.

Shepherd, J., & Mylopoulos, M. (2021). Unconscious perception and central coordinating agency. Philosophical Studies, 178, 3869-3923.

Shepherd, J. (2021). The moral status of conscious subjects. In Stephen Clarke, Hazem Zohny and Julian Savulescu (eds.), Rethinking Moral Status (pp. 57-73). Oxford University Press.

Shepherd, J. (2021). Intelligent action guidance and the use of mixed representational formats. Synthese, 198(Suppl 17), 4143-4162.

Shepherd, J. (2021). Skill and sensitivity to reasons. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 669-681.

Shepherd, J. (2020). The Targets of Skill, and their Importance. In Ellen Fridland and Carlotta Pavese (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill And Expertise (pp. 269-278). Routledge.

Mylopoulos, M., & Shepherd, J. (2020). Agentive Phenomenology. In U. Kriegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.

Shepherd, J., & Levy, N. (2020). Consciousness and morality. In U. Kriegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.

Sel, Alejandra, & Shepherd, J. (2020). Inhibitory control and self-control, in Alfred Mele (ed.), Surrounding Self-Control. Oxford University Press.

Björnsson, G., & Shepherd, J. (2020). Determinism and attributions of consciousness. Philosophical Psychology, 33(4), 549-568.

Sel, A., Sui, J., Shepherd, J., & Humphreys, G. (2019). Self-association and attentional processing regarding perceptually salient items. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 10(4), 735-746.

Carter, J. A., Pritchard, D., & Shepherd, J. (2019). Knowledge-how, understanding-why and epistemic luck: An experimental study. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 10, 701-734.

Shepherd, J. (2019). Skilled Action and the Double Life of Intention. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 98(2), 286-305.

Shepherd, J. (2019). The Anxious Mind: An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety, by Charlie Kurth. Mind 128(512), 1337-1344.

Shepherd, J. (2019). Why does the mind wander? Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2019(1), niz014.

Shepherd, J. (2018). Intending, believing, and supposing at will. Ratio, 31(3), 321-330.

Shepherd, J. (2018). Ethical (and epistemological) issues regarding consciousness in cerebral organoids. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44(9), 611-612.

Shepherd, J. (2018). Shannon Spaulding, How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition (2018). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (link: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/how-we-understand-others-philosophy-and-social-cognition/)

Shepherd, J. (2018). Disabilities and wellbeing: The bad and the neutral. In Adam Cureton and David Wasserman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Oxford University Press.

Shepherd, J. (2017). The experience of acting and the structure of consciousness. The Journal of Philosophy, 114(8), 422-448.

Shepherd, J. (2017). The Moral Insignificance of Self‐consciousness. European Journal of Philosophy, 25(2), 398-415.

Shepherd, J. (2017). Halfhearted action and control. Ergo, 4(9), 257-276.

*June 2018, Symposium on this article at Philosophy of Brains, with commentary by Zachary Irvine, Nora Heinzelmann, and Andreas Elpidorou: http://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/04/30/symposium-on-joshua-shepherds-halfhearted-action-and-control.aspx

Shepherd, J. (2017). Neuroscientific threaths to free will. In Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, and Kevin Timpe (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Free Will (pp. 423-433). Routledge.

Shepherd, J. (2017). The folk psychological roots of free will. In David Rose (ed.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy and Metaphysics (pp. 95-115). Bloomsbury.

Shepherd, J. (2016). Conscious action/zombie action. Noûs, 50(2), 419-444.

Shepherd, J. (2016). Consciousness and Quality-of-Life Research. AJOB Neuroscience, 7(1), 54-55.

Gomes, A., Parrott, M., & Shepherd, J. (2016). More dead than dead? Attributing mentality to vegetative state patients. Philosophical Psychology, 29(1), 84-95.

Shepherd, J. (2016). Moral conflict and the minimally conscious state. In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Consciousness After Severe Brain Damage: Medical, Legal, Ethical, and Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 160-179). Oxford University Press.

Shepherd, J. (2016). Kriegel on phenomenology of action. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 7(2): 264-272.

Shepherd, J. (2016). The morality of sport hatred (2016). In David Edmonds (ed.), Philosophers Take on the World (pp. 133-137). Oxford University Press.

Shepherd, J. (2015). Consciousness, free will, and moral responsibility: Taking the folk seriously. Philosophical Psychology, 28(7), 929-946.

Shepherd, J. (2015). Conscious control over action. Mind & Language, 30(3), 320-344.

Shepherd, J. (2015). Deciding as intentional action: Control over decisions. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93(2), 335-351.

Shepherd, J., & Justus, J. (2015). X-phi and Carnapian explication. Erkenntnis, 80, 381-402.

Shepherd, J. (2015). Scientific challenges to free will and moral responsibility. Philosophy Compass, 10(3), 197-207.

Clarke, R., Shepherd, J., Stigall, J., Waller, R. R., & Zarpentine, C. (2015). Causation, norms, and omissions: A study of causal judgments. Philosophical Psychology, 28(2), 279-293.

Shepherd, J., & Bishop, M. (2015). Argumente für die naturalisierte Erkenntnistheorie. In Dirk Koppleberg and Stefan Tolksdorf (eds.), Erkenntnistheorie–Wie und Wozu? (pp. 245-273) Münster, Germany, Mentis Verlag.

Shepherd, J. (2014). Minimizing harm via psychological intervention: response to Glannon. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40(10), 662-663.

Shepherd, J. (2014). The contours of control. Philosophical Studies, 170, 395-411.

Shepherd, J. (2014). Causalism and intentional omission. American Philosophical Quarterly, 51(1), 15-26.

Shepherd, J. (2014). Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2014). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (link: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/48373-moral-psychology-volume-4-free-will-and-moral-responsibility/)

Shepherd, J. (2013). The apparent illusion of conscious deciding. Philosophical Explorations, 16(1), 18-30.

Mele, A. R., & Shepherd, J. (2013). Situationism and agency. Journal of Practical Ethics, 1(1).

Shepherd, J. (2013). Why Block Can't Stand the HOT. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 20(3-4), 183-195.

Shepherd, J. (2012). Action, attitude, and the Knobe effect: Another asymmetry. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3, 171-185.

Shepherd, J. (2012). Action, mindreading and embodied social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11, 507-518.

Shepherd, J. (2012). Free will and consciousness: Experimental studies. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(2), 915-927.

More public-facing stuff

‘Knowledge, practical knowledge and intentional action,’ September 2023 at the Ergo Blog: https://ergoblog.org/joshua-shepherd-and-adam-carter-knowledge-practical-knowledge-and-intentional-action/

Articles written for the Ethics in the News Blog collected here: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/tag/joshua-shepherds-posts/

‘Octopuses are super smart . . . But are they conscious?’

Published at The Conversation April 14, 2016 (https://theconversation.com/octopuses-are-super-smart-but-are-they-conscious-57846), picked up by Newsweek Europe, IFLScience.com, The New Republic, and translated into French for publication by The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/les-pieuvres-sont-super-intelligentes-mais-ont-elles-une-conscience-59129) and also published in French by Slate.