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63Tit for tat for tit: On reactive loops and regressesAnalysis 83 (1): 55-60. 2023.First, a story
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55Self-ControlRoutledge. 2022.Self-control is a fundamental part of what it is to be a human being. It poses important philosophical and psychological questions about the nature of belief, motivation, judgment, and decision making. More immediately, failures of self-control can have high costs, resulting in ill-health, loss of relationships, and even violence and death, whereas strong self-control is also often associated with having a virtuous character. What exactly is self-control? If we lose control can we still be free?…Read more
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42Finding the Value in Things: Remarks on Markovits's Moral ReasonPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (2): 539-548. 2016.
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35Sartorio, Carolina. Causation and Free Will.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 208. $65.00Ethics 127 (3): 802-806. 2017.
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34A range of reasonsAsian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 1-16. 2024.Daniel Whiting’s excellent new book, The Range of Reasons (2022), makes a number of noteworthy contributions to the philosophical literature on reasons and normativity. A good deal has been written on normative reasons, and it is no easy thing to make novel and promising arguments. Yet, this is what Whiting manages to do. We are sympathetic to some of his ideas and critical of others. It makes sense for us to focus on the first half of his book, where Whiting presents two accounts of normative r…Read more
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29Responsibility from the MarginsAnalysis 77 (4): 869-872. 2017.Responsibility from the Margins By ShoemakerDavidOxford University Press, 2015, xvi + 262 pp. £30.00.
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27Responsibility from the MarginsAnalysis 77 (4): 869-872. 2017.© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] Shoemaker’s new book, Responsibility from the Margins, is an excellent and insightful explication of Shoemaker’s tripartite theory of moral responsibility. After setting out the main elements of his account, Shoemaker uses underexplored marginal cases of responsible agency to illustrate, support and shape his main theses co…Read more
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23A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argumentReligious Studies 58 (4). 2022.I set out and explore an argument for God's existence based on the idea that the possibility of God requires the existence of God as a ground. After setting this argument out, I compare it to other arguments for God, concentrating on an argument from Descartes's Third Meditation. I then address various objections and conclude by setting out a non-theistic version of the argument.
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1Reasons, Choices and ResponsibilityIn Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, Oxford University Press. pp. 461-482. 2018.
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