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33Automatic goals and conscious regulation in social cognitive affective neuroscienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 156-157. 2014.
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157Telling More Than We Can Know About Intentional ActionMind and Language 26 (3): 353-380. 2011.Recently, a number of philosophers have advanced a surprising conclusion: people's judgments about whether an agent brought about an outcome intentionally are pervasively influenced by normative considerations. In this paper, we investigate the ‘Chairman case’, an influential case from this literature and disagree with this conclusion. Using a statistical method called structural path modeling, we show that people's attributions of intentional action to an agent are driven not by normative asses…Read more
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1863How is Willpower Possible? The Puzzle of Synchronic Self‐Control and the Divided MindNoûs 48 (1): 41-74. 2012.Peer Reviewed.
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42The 2014 Tanner Symposium features a panel of speakers discussing current research in the areas of volition and self-control and the effects of that research for issues of public policy.
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19Using big data to map the network organization of the brainBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (1): 101-102. 2014.
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502Self-expression: a deep self theory of moral responsibilityPhilosophical Studies 173 (5): 1203-1232. 2016.According to Dewey, we are responsible for our conduct because it is “ourselves objectified in action”. This idea lies at the heart of an increasingly influential deep self approach to moral responsibility. Existing formulations of deep self views have two major problems: They are often underspecified, and they tend to understand the nature of the deep self in excessively rationalistic terms. Here I propose a new deep self theory of moral responsibility called the Self-Expression account that ad…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |