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Articles and Chapters
  1. Mandatory Retirement and Arbitrary Power. Is Mandatory Retirement Morally Defensible? Ethics, Economics, and Law in Ageing Societies. Ed. H.L. Li. Routledge Press.
  2. Handling Rejection. Coauthored with Jack Woods. Philosophical Studies 180 (2023): 159-90. Download Penultimate Draft.
  3. Deflating the Many Attitudes Problem. Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2022): 1-18. Download Penultimate Draft.
  4. If You're Quasi-Explaining, You're Quasi-Losing. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 16. Ed. R. Shafer-Landau. Oxford University Press (2021): 54-79. Download Penultimate Draft.
  5. Quasirealism as Semantic Dispensability. Philosophical Studies 178 (2021): 2313-33. Download Penultimate Draft.
  6. Skepticism about Ought Simpliciter. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 13. Ed. R. Shafer-Landau. Oxford University Press (2018): 230-52. Download Penultimate Draft.
  7. ​Expression and Guidance in Schroeder's Expressivist Semantics. Erkenntnis 83 (2018): 829-52. Download Penultimate Draft.
  8. ​The Varieties of Normativity. The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics. ​Eds. Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett, Routledge (2017): 567-81. Download Penultimate Draft.
  9. The Verdictive Organization of Desire. Canadian Journal of Philosophy ​47 (2017): 589-612. Download Penultimate Draft.
  10. Deliberators Must Be Imperfect. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (2016): 321-47. Download Penultimate Draft.
  11. Intuitions about Disagreement Do Not Support the Normativity of Meaning. dialectica 70 (2016): 65-84.
    ​Download Penultimate Draft.
  12. On Rationally Valuing One's Life. Special issue of Asian Bioethics Review 8 (2016): 1-16. Ed. Bonnie Steinbock.
  13. ​Why Transparency Undermines Economy. ​Synthese 192 (2015): 3037-50. Download Penultimate Draft.
  14. Akrasia and the Problem of the Unity of Reason. Ratio 28 (2015): 65-80. Download Penultimate Draft.
  15. How Expressivists Can and Should Explain Inconsistency. Coauthored with Jack Woods. Ethics 125 (2015): 391-424. Download Penultimate Draft.
    *Online discussion at PEA Soup with critical ​précis by Mark Schroeder.
  16. The Abductive Case for Humeanism Over Quasi-Perceptual Theories of Desire. The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 8 (2014): 1-29. Open Access Publication.
  17. Knowing Yourself--and Giving up on Your Own Agency in the Process. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (2012): 641-56.  Download Penultimate Draft.
  18. Ambivalent Desires and the Problem with Reduction. Philosophical Studies 150 (2010): 37-47. Download Penultimate Draft.

​Discussion Notes

  1.  Comments on Victor Tadros's "Treatment and Accountability." Lanson Lectures in Bioethics (2016-2022): Assisted Suicide, Responsibility, and Pandemic Ethics, (ed.) H.L. Li. Palgrave-MacMillan (2024).

Book Reviews

  1. Review of Social Goodness: the Ontology of Social Norms, by Charlotte Witt, Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming).
  2. Review of Free Will and Action Explanation, by Scott Sehon. Australasian Journal of Philosophy ​96 (2018): 41-43.
  3. Review of ​Motivational Internalism (eds. G. Björnsson, C. Strandberg, R. Francén Olinder, J. Eriksson, and F. Björklund). Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (2016): 814-16.
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