Below are links to some of my past and current work. Please contact me if a link doesn't work or you would like copy of something that is not listed here. Here is my CV
Books
Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief (Routledge, 2015)
Here is the Introduction.
Here are reviews: Ram Neta's in Mind (with a mistaken byline)
Here is a podcast of me talking about it.
Here is a symposium with commentaries and replies at Syndicate Philosophy
Belief as Emotion (OUP, under contract)
Here is a symposium with commentaries and replies at Syndicate Philosophy
Belief as Emotion (OUP, under contract)
Hope and Fantasy
I received a fellowship to work on the the ethics of hope
I received a fellowship to work on the the ethics of hope
- Rational Hope,Philosophical Explorations, 2017
- “The Value of a Free and Wandering Mind” In eds. Schmidt and Ernst. The Ethics of Belief and Beyond, (Routledge) 2020
Belief
- “Engaging with Fringe Beliefs: Why, When, and How.” (2023) Episteme, 1-16. doi:10.1017/epi.2023.33
- “Trusting is Believing” (2023). In M. Alfano, D. Collins, and I. Vidmar Jovanovic (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Trust. Lexington Books.
- "Belief as Emotion” (2022) Philosophical Issues, Vol. 32. DOI: 10.1111/phis.12232
- “Believing Badly: Doxastic Duties are not Epistemic Duties.” (2020) In eds. McCain and Stapleford Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Rouledge)
- Can Beliefs Be Based on Practical Reasons? (2020) In eds. Adam Carter and Pat Bondy, Well Founded Belief: New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (Routledge)
- Value Beyond Truth Value: A Practical Response to Skepticism (2021) Synthese 198, 8601–8619
- No Kind of Reason is the Wrong Kind of Reason, (2018)In ed. McCain Believing in Accordance with the Evidence: New Essays on Evidentialism. (Springer)
- Responding to Skepticism About Doxastic Agency (2018) Erkenntnis 83: 627-645
- : Taking Control of Belief (2011) Philosophical Explorations 14 (2):169-183
- Compelled Belief (2005) American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (3):157-169
- Ethics of Belief in the The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Revised 2019
- , On Ernest Sosa's Judgment and Agency (2017) Mind 126 (501): 309-317
- , On Annalisa Coliva’s Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2015) International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. (2015), 1-6
Hume
- Hume’s Skeptical Politics, 2014
- Why Should We Be Wise?, 2005
- Hume, Wittgenstein and the Impact of Skepticism , 2004
- A Change in Manner: Hume’s Scepticism in the Treatise and the first Enquiry, 1999
- Hume on Natural Belief and Original Principles , 1993
- On Donald Ainslie’s Hume’s True Scepticism, 2016
Works in Progress: If there is no link and you would like a copy of a draft, send me an email
Paper about the ethics of offering hope
Paper about the ethics of offering hope
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