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Selected Bibliography

Articles

1990

  • "Internalism and Speaker Relativism", Ethics 101, 6-26.
  • 1992
  • "The Supervenience Argument against Moral Realism", Southern J. of Philosophy 30, 13-38.
  • 1993
  • "Structures of Normative Theories", The Monist 76:1, 22-40.
  • 1994
  • "Perspectives on Normativity", Noûs 28, 514-525.
  • 1996
  • "Projectivism", article for Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy supplement.
  • "Expressivist Embeddings and Minimalist Truth", Philosophical Studies 83:1, 29-51.
  • "Rational Preference: Decision Theory as a Theory of Practical Rationality", Theory and Decision 40:3, 249-76.
  • "Accepting Agent Centered Norms", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74, 409-22.
  • 1997
  • "Humean Doubts", in Ethics and Practical Reason Cullity and Gaut (eds.), Oxford University Press.
  • 1998
  • "C. L. Stevenson", entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • 1999
  • "Transforming Expressivism", Noûs 33:4, 558-572.
  • 2000
  • "Dispositions and Fetishes", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61:3, 619-38.
  • 2001
  • "C. L. Stevenson" entry for Blackwell's Companion to Analytic Philosophy, A. P. Martinich and David Sosa, eds.
  • "Humean Doubts about Categorical Imperatives", in Varieties of Practical Reasoning, Elijah Millgram, ed., MIT Press, 27-49.
    2002
  • "The Expressivist Circle: Invoking Norms in the Explanation of Normative Judgment", Philosophy and Phenomenlogical Research 45:1, 136-143.
  • "Troubling Developments in Metaethics", Noûs (critical essay on Mark Timmons's Morality Without Foundations).
  • "Meta-ethics and Normative Commitment", Philosophical Issues 12 (2002).
  • "Gibbard and Moore", in Southern Journal of Philosophy (supplement) 2002.
  • 2004
  • "Lockean truth conditions and Logical truth conditions," ANALYSIS January 2004.
  • "Decision Theory and Morality", in the Oxford Handbook Rat., 2004.
  • "Why Ethical Satisficing Makes Sense and Rational Satisficing Doesn't", in Satisficing and Maximizing, Michael Byron (ed.), Cambridge University Press.
  • 2005

  • "Pettit on Preference for Properties and Prospects", in Philosophical Studies 124: 199 - 219.
  • “Metaethics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism”, in Philosophical Perspectives 18 (Ethics), 23 – 44.
  • Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory (editor), Blackwell, December 2005.
  • “Introduction” for Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory , x – xxiv.
  • 2006

    • “Moral Relativism and Moral Nihilism”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory , David Copp (ed.), Oxford University Press, 240–264.
    • “Was Moore a Moorean?”, in Metaethics After Moore , Horgan & Timmons (eds.), Oxford U. Press, 2006.
    • “Negation for Expressivists”, in Oxford Studies in Metaethics , R. Shafer-Landau (ed.), Oxford, 2006.
    • “Dispositions and Fetishes” reprinted in Arguing about Metaethics , S. Kirchen and A. Fisher, eds., Routledge, 547 – 556.
    • “Disagreeing (about) What to Do”, in press at Philosophy and Phenomenological Research .

    Online Papers

  • Internalism and Speaker Relativism (pdf)

  • The Supervenience Argument Against Moral Realism (pdf)

  • Accepting Agent Centered Norms: A Problem for Non-Cognitivists and a Suggestion for Solving It (pdf)

  • Structures of Normative Theories (pdf)

  • Expressivist Embeddings and Minimalist Truth (pdf)

  • Transforming Expressivism (pdf)

  • Dispositions and Fetishes: Externalist Models of Modal Motivation(pdf)

  • Lockean and Logical Truth Conditions (pdf)

  • Meta-Ethics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism (pdf)





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