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
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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)

And Peter Graham's in ndpr

And Scott Stapleford's in Philosophical Review

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)

Hope and Fantasy
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

Blog version at The Junkyard of the Mind ​

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