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86Authorial FreedomIn Berislav Marušić & Mark Schroeder (eds.), Analytic Existentialism, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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IntroductionIn Berislav Marušić & Mark Schroeder (eds.), Analytic Existentialism, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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22Convergence in PlanIn Billy Dunaway & David Plunkett (eds.), Meaning, Decision, and Norms: Themes From the Work of Allan Gibbard, Maize Books. pp. 307-318. 2021.
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19Perceptual Reasons and DefeatIn Jessica Brown & Mona Simion (eds.), Reasons, Justification, and Defeat, Oxford University Press. pp. 269-284. 2021.
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17Believing WellIn Conor Mchugh, Jonathan Way & Daniel Whiting (eds.), Metaepistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 196-212. 2018.
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24The Unity of ReasonsIn Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, Oxford University Press. pp. 46-66. 2018.
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27Commitment: Worth the WeightIn Errol Lord & Barry Maguire (eds.), Weighing Reasons, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 104-120. 2016.
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23The Truth in Hybrid SemanticsIn Guy Fletcher & Michael Ridge (eds.), Having It Both Ways: Hybrid Theories and Modern Metaethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 273-293. 2014.
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47Defining Moral RealismIn Paul Bloomfield & David Copp (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism, Oxford University Press. pp. 3-17. 2023.Wherever philosophers disagree, one of the things at issue is likely to be what they disagree about, itself. In addition to asking whether moral realism is true, and which forms of moral realism are more likely to be true than others, we can also ask what it would mean for some form of moral realism to be true. The usual aspiration of such inquiry is to find definitions that all can agree on, so that we can use terms in a uniform way. But we doubt that this aspiration is always possible, or even…Read more
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64The Fundamentals of ReasonsOxford University Press. 2024.The concept of a reason is now central to many areas of contemporary philosophy. Key theses in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of the emotions, among others, have come to be framed in terms of reasons. And yet, despite their centrality, theorists seem to take inconsistent things for granted about how reasons work, what kinds of things can be reasons, what reasons favor, and more. Somehow reasons have come to be both indispensable and impenetra…Read more
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72Trials and Triumphs of University-Funded Open-Access PublishingJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 26 (2). 2023.Mark Schroeder reflects on nine years of leading JESP, the continuing value of and challenges for the model of university-funded full-open access publishing in philosophy, and announces new leadership of and support for the journal.
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48Reply to Reasons LatestersPhilosophical Studies 181 (2): 637-648. 2024.It is an honor to receive such careful and attentive criticism. In this response, I attempt to put the criticisms of the reasons latesters into the context of my argumentative aims in the book and to point toward how they might be answered.
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50Précis of Reasons FirstPhilosophical Studies 181 (2): 603-606. 2024.This is an overview of the main themes and theses of _Reasons First_ for a book symposium, and intended to be read alongside the other contributions to that symposium.
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259Noncognitivism in EthicsRoutledge. 2010.According to noncognitivists, when we say that stealing is wrong, what we are doing is more like venting our feelings about stealing or encouraging one another not to steal, than like stating facts about morality. These ideas challenge the core not only of much thinking about morality and metaethics, but also of much philosophical thought about language and meaning. _Noncognitivism in Ethics_ is an outstanding introduction to these theories, ranging from their early history through the latest co…Read more
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245Narrative and Personal IdentityAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 96 (1): 209-226. 2022.In this paper I explore how and why personal identity might be essentially narrative in nature. My topic is the question of personal identity in the strict sense of identity—the question of which person you are, and how that person is extended in space, time, and quality. In this my question appears to contrast with the question of personal identity in the sense sought by teenagers and sufferers of mid-life crises who are trying to ‘find themselves’. But in fact it will be key to my argument tha…Read more
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208How Does the Good Appear To Us?Social Theory and Practice 34 (1): 119-130. 2008.This is a rough draft of a critical notice of Sergio Tenenbaum’s book, Appearances of the Good, for Social Theory and Practice.
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225Being Realistic About Reasons, by T.M. Scanlon: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. x + 132, US$35 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (1): 195-198. 2015.
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130Why You'll Regret Not Reading This PaperRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 85 135-156. 2019.In this paper, I explore the role for anticipated regret in major life decision-making, focusing on how it is employed by realistic decision-makers in a variety of realistic cases. I argue that the most obvious answers to how regret might matter in decision do not make these cases intelligible, but that we can make them intelligible through consideration of the significance of narrative in our own self-understanding.
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368The fundamental reason for reasons fundamentalismPhilosophical Studies 178 (10): 3107-3127. 2021.Reasons, it is often said, are king in contemporary normative theory. Some philosophers say not only that the vocabulary of reasons is useful, but that reasons play a fundamental explanatory role in normative theory—that many, most, or even all, other normative facts are grounded in facts about reasons. Even if reasons fundamentalism, the strongest version of this view, has only been wholeheartedly endorsed by a few philosophers, it has a kind of prominence in contemporary normative theory that …Read more
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90Knowledge Is Belief For Sufficient (Objective and Subjective) ReasonOxford Studies in Epistemology 5. 2015.This chapter lays out a case that with the proper perspective on the place of epistemology within normative inquiry more generally, it is possible to appreciate what was on the right track about some of the early approaches to the analysis of knowledge, and to improve on the obvious failures which led them to be rejected. Drawing on more general principles about reasons, their weight, and their relationship to justification, it offers answers to problems about defeat and the conditional fallacy …Read more
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111Common Subject for EthicsMind 130 (517): 85-110. 2021.The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize and explore what I shall call the Common Subject Problem for ethics. The problem is that there seems to be no good answer to what property everyone who makes moral claims could be talking and thinking about. The Common Subject Problem is not a new problem; on the contrary, I will argue that it is one of the central animating concerns in the history of both metaethics and normative theory. But despite its importance, the Common Subject Problem is esse…Read more
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