Publications

My publications focus on Kant, Wilfrid Sellars and other 20th/21st c. analytic philosophers,  pragmatism, naturalism, normativity, perceptual knowledge, & Hume – more generally on the place of human beings in nature.

My books, articles, and research articles in edited volumes, are all below:

From the 'Sellars Centenary Conference' UCD 2012,  Sellarsians 'left to right', so to speak:  Robert Brandom (far left), John McDowell, me (beardless),  and Paul Churchland (far right):

Below are all publications 1996 to 2026, and then grouped by topic (Kant, Kant & Sellars etc., Sellars, Pragmatism & Analytic, Hume).   I am gradually trying to convert files to 'pre-publication' docs.   Please feel free to email me if you can't gain access to an original publication and I'll see what I can do: jim.oshea@ucd.ie .

Work completed or in progress 2026-2027:

-Article on Kant's 'Appendix':   'The Nature & Necessity of Kant’s Open-Ended Regulative Principles'.

-Article on 'Inferentialist Anti-Representationalism' completed Nov'26.

-Article forthcoming  'Putnam on Sellars' Manifest & Scientific Images of the World', in Interpreting Putnam eds Roberto Gronda & Giancarlo Marchetti.

-Article forthcoming 'Sellars’ Fusion of "Meaning as Use" with "Picturing" Correspondence', in The Sellarsian Mind ed. Jeremy Koons.

-Article in progress:  'The Structure of Kant's Religion of Pure Reason'.

-Article in progress:  'The Methodological Conception of the Observable/Theoretical Distinction'.

-Article in progress:  'Acting in Accordance with the Representation of Principles'.

-Monograph in progress on Kant's Philosophy of Nature.