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

Shepherd, J., & Bayne, T. (forthcoming). How to think about the functions of consciousness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Shepherd, J. (forthcoming). The nature of mental imagery: Beyond a basic view. Analysis.

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., Liad 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.

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 and cognitive control. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(2), e1629.

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.

Shepherd, J. (2022). Practical structure and moral skill. Philosophical Quarterly. DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqab047.

Shepherd, J. (2022). Flow and the dynamics of conscious thought. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-021-09762-x.

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

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.

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

Shepherd, J. (2021). Skill and sensitivity to reasons. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 12: 669-681. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00515-4

Shepherd, J. (2021). Intelligent action guidance and the use of mixed representational formats. Synthese 198: 4143-4162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1892-7

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

Shepherd, J. (2019). Why does the mind wander? Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019, niz014, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niz014

Shepherd, J. (2019). Skilled action and the double life of intention. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research98(2): 285-306.

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

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

Shepherd, J. (2017). Half-hearted 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). The moral insignificance of self-consciousness. European Journal of Philosophy 25(2): 395-415.

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

Shepherd, J. (2016). Conscious action/Zombie action. Noûs 50(2): 219-244.

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

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

Shepherd, J. (2015). Deciding as intentional action: Control over decisions. Australasian Journal of Philosophy93(2): 335-351.

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

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

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. (2014). The contours of control. Philosophical Studies 170(3): 395-411.

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

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

Shepherd, J. (2012). Action, mindreading and embodied social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11(4): 507-518.

Shepherd, J. (2012). Action, attitude, and the Knobe Effect: Another asymmetry. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 3(2): 171-185.

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

Book chapters

Shepherd, J. (2023). 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). Bodily skill. In Adrian J.T. Alsmith and Matthew Longo (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness (pp. 309-320). Routledge.

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. (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.

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

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.

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

Shepherd, J. (2016). Neuroscientific threats to free will. In Routledge Companion to Free Will, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, and Kevin Timpe (eds.), Routledge, 423-433.

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

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

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.

Commentaries

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

Shepherd, J. (2016). Consciousness and quality of life research. American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience.

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

Letters

Bayne, T., Seth, A., Massimini, M., Shepherd, J., Cleeremans, A., Fleming, S.M., Malach, R., Mattingley, J.B., Menon, D.K., Owen, A.M. and Peters, M.A., (2024). Animals and the iterative natural kind strategy. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

IIT-Concerned, et al. (2023). The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience. PsyArXiv, 16 Sept. 2023, doi:10.31234/osf.io/zsr78.

*co-written and signed by a consortium of 124 authors

*Media covered this letter widely, including pieces in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1), The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/integrated-information-theory-consciousness-scientific-explanation/675503/), and many others

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.

Book reviews

Shepherd, J. (2024). Wayne Wu, Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Shepherd, J. (2018). Charlie Kurth, The Anxious Mind. Mind, fzy077, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy077.

Shepherd, J. (2018). Shannon Spaulding, How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

(link: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/how-we-understand-others-philosophy-and-social-cognition/)

Shepherd, J. (2014). Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

(link: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/48373-moral-psychology-volume-4-free-will-and-moral-responsibility/)

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.