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    The Philosophy of Modern Song
    British Journal of Aesthetics. forthcoming.
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    Philosophy 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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    Basic Actions and Individuation
    In 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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    Wittgenstein on Causation and Induction
    with Chon Tejedor
    In 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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    Kant and Hegel on purposive action
    Philosophical 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
  • Introduction : Hegel and contemporary philosophy of action
    In Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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    Filosofia moral moderna abans i després d’Anscombe
    Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 64 39. 2020.
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    Analytic Philosophy has a Language Problem
    Institute 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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    Extending 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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    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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    Unconscious 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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    Philosophy, In a Sense
    The Philosophers' Magazine 94 18-20. 2021.
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    Nietzsche on the Good of the Guise
    The Philosophers' Magazine 93 19-21. 2021.
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    Virtue Ethics and Particularism
    Aristotelian 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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    Dylan at 80 (edited book)
    with G. Browning
    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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    No Picnic: Cavell on Rule‐Descriptions
    Philosophical 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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    Philosophy, In a Sense
    The Philosophers' Magazine 92 10-12. 2021.
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    Philosophy, In a Sense
    with Katie Behrens
    The Philosophers' Magazine 91 11-12. 2020.
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    Philosophy, In a Sense
    The Philosophers' Magazine 90 6-7. 2020.
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    Modern Moral Philosophy Before and After
    Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 64. 2020.
    This paper argues that there was considerably more philosophy of action in moral theory before 1958 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 branch of moral philosophy.
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    The Metaphysics of Action: Trying, Doing, Causing
    Philosophical Quarterly 70 (280): 657-660. 2020.
    The Metaphysics of Action: Trying, Doing, Causing. By Ruben David-Hillel., ISBN 9783319903460.)
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    Reasoning to action
    Philosophical Explorations 23 (2): 180-186. 2020.
    Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 180-186.
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    Philosophy, In a Sense
    The Philosophers' Magazine 89 6-7. 2020.
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    Philosophy, In a Sense
    The Philosophers' Magazine 88 6-8. 2020.
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    Modern Moral Philosophy Before and After Anscombe
    Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía. forthcoming.
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