Derek Baker
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Articles and Chapters
  1. Handling Rejection. Coauthored with Jack Woods. Philosophical Studies 180 (2023): 159-90. Download Penultimate Draft.
  2. Deflating the Many Attitudes Problem. Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2022): 1-18. Download Penultimate Draft.
  3. 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.
  4. Quasirealism as Semantic Dispensability. Philosophical Studies 178 (2021): 2313-33. Download Penultimate Draft.
  5. Skepticism about Ought Simpliciter. Oxford Studies in Metaethics 13. Ed. R. Shafer-Landau. Oxford University Press (2018): 230-52. Download Penultimate Draft.
  6. ​Expression and Guidance in Schroeder's Expressivist Semantics. Erkenntnis 83 (2018): 829-52. Download Penultimate Draft.
  7. ​The Varieties of Normativity. The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics. ​Eds. Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett, Routledge (2017): 567-81. Download Penultimate Draft.
  8. The Verdictive Organization of Desire. Canadian Journal of Philosophy ​47 (2017): 589-612. Download Penultimate Draft.
  9. Deliberators Must Be Imperfect. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (2016): 321-47. Download Penultimate Draft.
  10. Intuitions about Disagreement Do Not Support the Normativity of Meaning. dialectica 70 (2016): 65-84.
    ​Download Penultimate Draft.
  11. On Rationally Valuing One's Life. Special issue of Asian Bioethics Review 8 (2016): 1-16. Ed. Bonnie Steinbock.
  12. ​Why Transparency Undermines Economy. ​Synthese 192 (2015): 3037-50. Download Penultimate Draft.
  13. Akrasia and the Problem of the Unity of Reason. Ratio 28 (2015): 65-80. Download Penultimate Draft.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Knowing Yourself--and Giving up on Your Own Agency in the Process. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (2012): 641-56.  Download Penultimate Draft.
  17. 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 Free Will and Action Explanation, by Scott Sehon. Australasian Journal of Philosophy ​96 (2018): 41-43.
  2. 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.

Selected Works In Progress

Email me for working drafts.
Online Shaming and Free Speech.
Why Should I--If You Can't Explain Normativity. In Progress.
Metaethical Contextualism and the Dispositional Theory of Value. In Progress.
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