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159Book Review: Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (2): 223-225. 2004.
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124A Just Medium: Empathy and Detachment in Historical UnderstandingJournal of the Philosophy of History 5 (2): 179-200. 2011.This paper explores the role of empathy and detachment in historical explanation by comparing Collingwood and Hume's philosophies of history to Brecht and Stanislavki's theories of theatre. I argue that Collingwood's notion of re-enactment shares much more with Hume and Brecht than it does with Stanislavski. This enables a just medium between rationalistic and empathetic accounts of historical understanding, as recently put forth by Mark Bevir and Karsten Stueber respectively
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19Hegel on action (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2010.This volume focuses on Hegel's philosophy of action in connection to current concerns. Including key papers by Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John McDowell, as well as eleven especially commissioned contributions by leading scholars in the field, it aims to readdress the dialogue between Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action. Topics include: the nature of action, reasons and causes; explanation and justification of action; social and narrative aspects of agency; the inner and the …Read more
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60He buttered the toast while baking a fresh loafPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.Download.
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18The public expression of penitenceTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 141-152. 2012.
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306Dancy Cartwright: Particularism in the philosophy of science (review)Acta Analytica 21 (2): 30-40. 2006.This paper aims to explore the space of possible particularistic approaches to Philosophy of Science by examining the differences and similarities between Jonathan Dancy’s moral particularism—as expressed in both his earlier writings (e.g., Moral Reasons , 1993), and, more explicitly defended in his book Ethics without Principles (2004)—and Nancy Cartwright’s particularism in the philosophy of science, as defended in her early collection of essays, How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983), and her lat…Read more
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24Stephen Mulhall, Philosophical Myths of the Fall Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 60-62. 2007.
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110Gilbert Ryle , Collected Papers Volume II: Collected Essays 1929-1968 . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (6): 455-457. 2011.
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128The limits of ignorance Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9571-z Authors Constantine Sandis, Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford, OX2 9AT UK Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796
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173Can Action Explanations Ever Be Non-Factive?In David Bakhurst, Margaret Olivia Little & Brad Hooker (eds.), Thinking about reasons: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy, Oxford University Press. pp. 29. 2013.
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95Review of Adam Morton, The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology As Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9). 2003.
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28Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics of Politics: Selected Essays (Vol. 2) Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 49-51. 2008.
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202New essays on the explanation of action (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2009.A solid cast of contributors present the first collection of essays on the Philosophy of Action
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119“If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats”: Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of LifeNordic Wittgenstein Review 4 131-153. 2015.This essay introduces a tension between the public Wittgenstein’s optimism about knowledge of other minds and the private Wittgenstein’s pessimism about understanding others. There are three related reasons which render the tension unproblematic. First, the barriers he sought to destroy were metaphysical ones, whereas those he struggled to overcome were psychological. Second, Wittgenstein’s official view is chiefly about knowledge while the unofficial one is about understanding. Last, Wittgenste…Read more
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164Hitchcock's Conscious Use of Freud's UnconsciousEurope's Journal of Psychology 3 56-81. 2009.This paper argues that Hitchcock's so-called 'Freudian' films (esp. Spellbound, Psycho, and Marnie) pay tribute to the cultural magnetism of Freud's ideas whist being critical of the tehories themselves.
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207Dretske on the Causation of BehaviorBehavior and Philosophy 36 71-86. 2008.In two recent articles and an earlier book Fred Dretske appeals to a distinction between triggering and structuring causes with the aim of establishing that psychological explanations of behavior differ from non-psychological ones. He concludes that intentional human behavior is triggered by electro-chemical events but structured by representational facts. In this paper I argue that while this underrated causalist position is considerably more persuasive than the standard causalist alternative, …Read more
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161The Explanation of Action in HistoryEssays in Philosophy 7 (2): 12. 2006.This paper focuses on two conflations which frequently appear within the philosophy of history and other fields concerned with action explanation. The first of these, which I call the Conflating View of Reasons, states that the reasons for which we perform actions are reasons why (those events which are) our actions occur. The second, more general conflation, which I call the Conflating View of Action Explanation, states that whatever explains why an agent performed a certain action explains why…Read more