All of my papers are available to download in pdf. These are mostly penultimate drafts rather than the published versions.
Papers listed in order of publication, most recent first.
Virtue and Vice in the Hurt Locker. Dialogue 37 (November 2011). <pdf 111kb>
The contribution to moral philosophy made by an Oscar winning film.
Bad Faith and the Unconscious. The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFolette, John Deigh, and Sarah Stroud
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). <pdf 176kb>
Freud vs Sartre on the nature of self-deception.
A Law Unto Oneself. The Philosophical Quarterly forthcoming. <pdf 243kb>
Kant's claim that one legislates maxims of action that bind oneself should be understood in terms of precedent, not statute.
Intentional Side-Effects of Action. Co-authored with Robin Scaife. Journal of Moral Philosophy forthcoming. <pdf 311kb>
Experimental philosophy paper arguing against the claim that the folk classification of side-effects as intentional is partly normative.
Climate Change and Public Moral Reasoning. New Waves in Ethics, ed. Thom Brooks (Macmillan, 2011). <pdf 217kb>
How moral psychology can save the world.
Freedom. The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, ed. Sebastian Luft and Søren Overgaard (Routledge, 2011). <pdf 172kb>
Sartre vs Merleau-Ponty on the freedom revealed by phenomenology.
Review: Reading Sartre, by Joseph S. Catalano. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 9 February 2011. <pdf 135kb>
Homage to Catalano.
There Is Something About Inez. Think 27 (2011). <pdf 184kb>
What did Sartre mean by that famous phrase, 'Hell is other people'? And who is Inez anyway?
Bad Faith and the Other. In Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism, ed. Jonathan Webber (Routledge: 2010). <pdf 221kb>
We should read Sartre as diagnosing a social malady, rather than individual failing, of bad faith.
Character. The Philosophers' Magazine 50 (2010). <pdf 78kb>
Brief introduction to the recent philosophical debate about character. Part of TPM's 'Ideas of the Century' series.
Existentialism. The Routledge Companion to Ethics, ed. John Skorupski (Routledge, 2010). <pdf 213kb>
How to make sense of the bewildering variety of ways in which this word is used.
Reconstructing Alfie. The Philosophers' Magazine 47 (2009). <pdf 102kb>
What's it all about then, eh? That's what I keep asking myself.
Sex. Philosophy 84 (2009). <pdf 364kb>
The sexual domain is governed by all and only the same moral concerns as govern our lives in general.
Character, Global and Local. Utilitas 19 (2007). <pdf 144kb>
Accepting the proposed 'fragmentation' theory of character is unnecessary and undesirable.
Character, Common-Sense, and Expertise. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2007). <pdf 368kb>
Our concept of character is not rooted in the purported 'fundamental attribution error'.
Character, Consistency, and Classification. Mind 115 (2006). <pdf 128kb>
Just what is at issue in the debate about the nature of character traits?
Virtue, Character and Situation. Journal of Moral Philosophy 3 (2006). <pdf 276kb>
Experimental evidence supports the traditional view of character traits as general dispositions manifested in behavioural inclinations.
Sartre's Theory of Character. European Journal of Philosophy 14 (2006). <pdf 184kb>
The central theme of Sartre's existentialist philosophy is the idea that character consists in projects.
Doing Without Representation: Coping with Dreyfus. Philosophical Explorations 5 (2002). <pdf 132kb>
Hubert Dreyfus has not shown that action need not involve representation, only that it need not involve conceptual representation.
Motivated Aversion: Bad Faith and Non-Thetic Awareness. Sartre Studies International 8 (2002). <pdf 156kb>
Given its role in his theory of bad faith, Sartre's term 'non-thetic' should be understood to mean 'non-conceptual'.
