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3605Symposium. The Apology RitualTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (2). 2012.Symposium on Christopher Bennet's The Apology Ritual. A Philosophical Theory of Punishment [Cambridge University Press, 2008].
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25Philosophy of Action: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2015._The Philosophy of Action: An Anthology_ is an authoritative collection of key work by top scholars, arranged thematically and accompanied by expert introductions written by the editors. This unique collection brings together a selection of the most influential essays from the 1960s to the present day. An invaluable collection that brings together a selection of the most important classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of action, from the 1960’s to the present day No other broad-ranging…Read more
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20Basic Actions and IndividuationIn Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Basic Actions Action Individuation References Further reading.
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24Wittgenstein on Causation and InductionIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.Wittgenstein's earlier treatment of causation and induction remains thought‐provoking and relevant to contemporary debates in the philosophy of science. Wittgenstein's approach to causation and induction in the Tractatus emerges in the context of two separate, but related discussions. A negative discussion that aims to expose a particular understanding of natural necessity as nonsensical, and a more positive discussion concerning the role played by laws in the natural sciences. In the Tractatus,…Read more
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61Kant and Hegel on purposive actionPhilosophical Explorations 21 (1): 90-107. 2018.This essay discusses Kant and Hegel’s philosophies of action and the place of action within the general structure of their practical philosophy. We begin by briefly noting a few things that both unite and distinguish the two philosophers. In the sections that follow, we consider these and their corollaries in more detail. In so doing, we map their differences against those suggested by more standard readings that treat their accounts of action as less central to their practical philosophy. Secti…Read more
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Hume and the debate on 'motivating reasons'In Charles R. Pigden (ed.), Hume on motivation and virtue, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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Introduction : Hegel and contemporary philosophy of actionIn Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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12Nayef Al-Rodhan, "Sustainable History and Human Dignity: A Neurophilosophy of History and the Future of Civilisation."Philosophy in Review 43 (1): 4-6. 2022.
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16Filosofia moral moderna abans i després d’AnscombeEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 64 39. 2020.This paper argues that there was considerably more philosophy of action in moral theory before 1958 (when Anscombe complained of its lack under the banner 'philosophy of psychology') than there has been since. This is in part because Anscombe influenced the formation of 'virtue theory' as yet another position within normative ethics, and her work contributed to the fashioning of 'moral psychology' as an altogether distinct (and now increasingly empirical) branch of moral philosophy.
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217Analytic Philosophy has a Language ProblemInstitute of Art and Ideas News. 2022.Some time ago, the philosopher Luciano Floridi suggested that Western philosophy, and the mainstream contemporary approach to it traditionally called ‘analytic philosophy’, is in dire need of a reboot. The concern was that the discipline might be in a period of decadence. Analytic philosophy would be benefited by greater internationalization, wider and more transparent decision-making, and the reduction (as much as possible) of conflicts of interest as well as of its current habit of hiring and …Read more
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48Extending Hinge Epistemology (edited book)Anthem Press. 2022.Hinge Epistemology is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting areas of epistemology and Wittgenstein studies. In connecting these two fields it brings a revived energy to both, opening them up to fresh developments. The essays in this volume extend the subject in terms of both depth and breadth. They present new voices and challenges within hinge epistemology. They explore new applications and directions of hinge epistemology, particularly as it relates to the philosophy of mind, society, ethi…Read more
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5Philosophy of Action From Suarez to AnscombeRoutledge. 2018.Accounts of human and animal action have been central to modern philosophy from Suarez and Hobbes in the sixteenth century to Wittgenstein and Anscombe in the mid-twentieth century via Locke, Hume, Kant, and Hegel, among many others. Philosophies of action have thus greatly influenced the course of both moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. This book gathers together specialists from both the philosophy of action and the history of philosophy with the aim of re-assessing the wider philoso…Read more
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525Unconscious Bias or Deliberate Gatekeeping?The Philosophers' Magazine (95): 9-11. 2021.Philosophy has a language problem. A recent study by Schwitzgebel, Huang, Higgins and Gonzalez-Cabrera (2018) found that, in a sample of papers published in elite journals, 97% of citations were to work originally written in English. 73% of this same sample didn’t cite any paper that had been originally written in a language other than English. Finally, a staggering 96% of elite journal editorial boards are primarily affiliated with an Anglophone university. This is consistent with earlier data …Read more
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68Virtue Ethics and ParticularismAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 95 (1): 205-232. 2021.Moral particularism is often conceived as the view that there are no moral principles. However, its most fêted accounts focus almost exclusively on rules regarding actions and their features. Such action-centred particularism is, I argue, compatible with generalism at the level of character traits. The resulting view is a form of particularist virtue ethics. This endorses directives of the form ‘Be X’ but rejects any implication that the relevant X-ness must therefore always count in favour of a…Read more
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768Dylan at 80 (edited book)Imprint Academic. forthcoming.2021 marks Dylan's 80th birthday and his 60th year in the music world. It invites us to look back on his career and the multitudes that it contains. Is he a song and dance man? A political hero? A protest singer? A self-portrait artist who has yet to paint his masterpiece? Is he Shakespeare in the alley? The greatest living exponent of American music? An ironsmith? Internet radio DJ? Poet (who knows it)? Is he a spiritual and religious parking meter? Judas? The voice of a generation or a false p…Read more
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33No Picnic: Cavell on Rule‐DescriptionsPhilosophical Investigations 44 (3): 295-317. 2021.In his first paper, ‘Must We Mean What We Say?’, Stanley Cavell defended the methods of ordinary language philosophy against various charges made by his senior colleague, Benson Mates, under the influence of the empirical semantics of Arne Naess.1 Cavell’s argument hinges on the claim that native speakers are a source of evidence for 'what is said' in language and, accordingly, need not base their claims about ordinary language upon evidence. In what follows, I maintain that this defence against…Read more
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10Book review: G.P. BAKER and P.M.S. HACKER, Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning Parts I (Essays) and II (Exegesis §§ 1—184). (Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), 2nd edn, extensively revised by P.M.S. Hacker. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, xxiv + 394 & xix + 363 pp. £60 + £60 (review)Discourse Studies 9 (5): 712-713. 2007.
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40Modern Moral Philosophy Before and AfterEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 64 0039-62. 2020.This paper argues that there was considerably more philosophy of action in moral theory before 1958 (when Anscombe complained of its lack under the banner 'philosophy of psychology') than there has been since. This is in part because Anscombe influenced the formation of 'virtue theory' as yet another position within normative ethics, and her work contributed to the fashioning of 'moral psychology' as an altogether distinct (and now increasingly empirical) branch of moral philosophy.
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30The Metaphysics of Action: Trying, Doing, CausingPhilosophical Quarterly 70 (280): 657-660. 2020.The Metaphysics of Action: Trying, Doing, Causing. By Ruben David-Hillel., ISBN 9783319903460.)
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35Reasoning to actionPhilosophical Explorations 23 (2): 180-186. 2020.Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 180-186.