•  171
    Are all reasons causes?
    Philosophical Studies 173 (5): 1179-1190. 2016.
    In this paper, I revisit the Davidsonian thesis that all reasons are causes. Drawing on a better taxonomy of reasons than the one Davidson provides, I argue that this thesis is either indefensible or uninteresting
  •  135
    Reasons and factive emotions
    Philosophical Studies 175 (7): 1681-1691. 2018.
    In this paper, I present and explore some ideas about how factive emotional states and factive perceptual states each relate to knowledge and reasons. This discussion will shed light on the so-called ‘perceptual model’ of the emotions.
  •  75
    Doxastic Cognitivism: An Anti-Intellectualist Theory of Emotion
    Philosophical Perspectives 34 (1): 27-52. 2020.
    Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 27-52, December 2020.
  •  37
    Emotions, evidence, and safety
    Synthese 199 (1-2): 2027-2050. 2020.
    This paper explores two ways that emotions can facilitate knowledge. First, emotions can play an evidential role with respect to belief formation. Second, emotions can be knowledge-conducive without being evidential by securing the safety of belief.
  •  16
    Conditional emotions
    Philosophical Perspectives 37 (1): 145-163. 2023.
    Some conditional involving factive emotives present a prima facie challenge to the thesis that conditionals obey modus ponens. Drawing on recent work by Timothy Williamson, I offer an error-theoretic diagnosis of the phenomenon, one that appeals to a heuristic that we use in suppositional reasoning.
  •  12
    Recognition
    Erkenntnis 1-12. forthcoming.
    This paper offers an account of recognition and its relation to knowledge. One important observation is that while ‘know’ is a stative verb, ‘recognize’ is an achievement verb. A second is that ‘recognize’ is knowledge entailing, both when combined with a complementizer phrase and when combined with a noun phrase. The behavior of the latter kind of construction is particularly subtle and is the main focus of this paper. This paper ends with an interesting puzzle about object recognition.