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Most of my academic work is on moral psychology and the metaphysics of free will. A list of books and papers appears below, with links where possible. Feel free to email me at neal.tognazzini@wwu.edu to request copies of anything you can't access.

You can also download my CV or view my research on PhilPapers.

books

Freedom, Responsibility, and Value: Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer. Routledge, 2024.
co-edited with Taylor W. Cyr and Andrew Law
Blame: Its Nature and Norms. Oxford University Press, 2013.
co-edited with D. Justin Coates
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, volume 2: 'Freedom and Resentment' at 50'.Oxford University Press, 2014.
co-edited with David Shoemaker

academic papers

forthcoming. Unhitching the Semi from Semicompatibilism. To appear in a special issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy.

2024. Blame. (with D. Justin Coates). In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (First published 2014, revised 2018 and 2024.)

2024. What Time Travel Teaches Us About Moral Responsibility (with Taylor W. Cyr). In Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy.

2022. You're Just Jealous!: On Envious Blame. In The Moral Psychology of Envy, edited by Sara Protasi, Rowman & Littlefield.

2020. Salience and Silence: On Being Judgmental. In The Ethics of Belief and Beyond: Understanding Mental Normativity, edited by Sebastian Schmidt and Ernst Gerhard, New York: Routledge.

2019. Free Will and Two Local Determinisms (with Andrew Law). In Erkenntnis.

2018. Responsibility. In The International Encyclopedia of Ethics.

2018. Regretting the Impossible. In William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life, edited by Jacob Goodson, Lexington Books.

2017. Pride in Christian Philosophy and Theology (with Kevin Timpe). In The Moral Psychology of Pride, edited by J. Adam Carter and Emma C. Gordon, Rowman & Littlefield.

2017. Incompatibilism and the Fixity of the Past (with John Martin Fischer). In Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from van Inwagen, edited by John Keller, Oxford University Press. Reply by Wes Holliday.

2016. Free Will and Miracles. In Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.

2016. Free Will and Time Travel. In The Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited by Griffith, Levy, and Timpe, Routledge.

2015. The Strains of Involvement. In The Nature of Moral Responsibility, edited by Clarke, McKenna, and Smith, Oxford University Press.

2015. Grounding the Luck Objection. In The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

2014. Reactive Attitudes and Volitional Necessity. In The Journal of Value Inquiry.

2014. The Structure of a Manipulation Argument. In Ethics.

2014. Omniscience, Freedom, and Dependence (with John Martin Fischer). In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.  Reply by Jonathan Westphal.

2013. The Logic of Theological Incompatibilism: A Reply to Westphal (with John Martin Fischer). In Analysis.

2013. Blameworthiness and the Affective Account of Blame. In Philosophia.

2013. The Contours of Blame (with D. Justin Coates). In Blame: Its Nature and Norms, edited by Coates and Tognazzini, Oxford University Press.

2012. The Nature and Ethics of Blame (with D. Justin Coates). In Philosophy Compass.

2011. The Physiognomy of Responsibility (with John Martin Fischer). In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

2011. Understanding Source Incompatibilism. In The Modern Schoolman (now Res Philosophica).

2011. Owning Up to Luck. In Social Theory & Practice.

2010. Persistence and Responsibility. In Time and Identity, edited by Campbell, O'Rourke, and Silverstein, MIT Press.

2010. Why Frankfurt-Examples Don't Need to Succeed to Succeed (with Felipe Leon). In Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

2010. Blame and Avoidability: Reply to Otsuka (with John Martin Fischer). In The Journal of Ethics. Reply by Michael Otsuka.

2009. The Truth About Tracing (with John Martin Fischer). In Noûs.

2009. Engaging with Pike: God, Freedom, and Time (with John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd). In Philosophical Papers.

2008. A Problem for Guidance Control (with Patrick Todd). In The Philosophical Quarterly.

2007. Exploring Evil and Philosophical Failure: A Critical Notice of Peter van Inwagen's The Problem of Evil (with John Martin Fischer). In Faith and Philosophy.

2007. The Hybrid Nature of Promissory Obligation. In Philosophy and Public Affairs.

2006. Simples and the Possibility of Discrete Space. In The Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

op-eds

2018. In Defense of Taking Things For Granted. In The New York Times.

book reviews