•  2
    Leveraging Respect from a Pro-Choice Perspective
    Southwest Philosophy Review 39 (2): 43-47. 2023.
  •  2
    The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  1
    Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  2
    Indolence and Industry in Hume and Austen
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  5
    Hume and Austen on Pride
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  • Front Matter
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations.
  •  3
    Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: I II.
  •  2
    Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  2
    Hume and Austen on Sympathy
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  2
    Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: I II.
  •  2
    Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  2
    Literary Form and Philosophical Content
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  • Index
    In Dominic McIver Lopes & Berys Gaut (eds.), Mirrors to One Another, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
  •  7
    Tattoos Can Sometimes Be Art: A Modest Embellishment of Stephen Davies’s Adornment
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (4): 499-503. 2021.
    Stephen Davies offers a compelling account of adornment as a form of aesthetic enhancement that aims either to intensify or to contribute to beauty and sublimit.
  •  2
    Metaphor and Misconstrual
    Southwest Philosophy Review 37 (2): 21-24. 2021.
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    Not Sitting Down for It: How Stand‐Up Differs from Fiction
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (4): 513-524. 2020.
    ABSTRACT One of the standard defenses of Daniel Tosh, Andrew Dice Clay, Bernard Manning, and other stand-up comedians who have been accused of crossing moral lines is that the responses they elicit belong to an aesthetic rather than a moral domain to which standard methods of ethical evaluation are therefore inapplicable. I argue, first, that fictionality does not confer immunity to ethical criticism and, second, that the stance adopted by the stand-up artist is not fully analogous to a fictive …Read more
  •  13
    Legislating Pain Capability: Sentience and the Abortion Debate
    with William L. Andrews
    In David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 661-675. 2018.
    Over the past few years, over a dozen states have proposed, and almost as many have passed, something referred to as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a piece of legislation that makes abortion impermissible once fetal pain is possible and that further stipulates the fetus can feel pain at or before 20 weeks of gestation. Some very important questions immediately relevant to the abortion debate, perhaps even to the more complex issue of fetal rights, are raised by this legislation, e…Read more
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    Many philosophers maintain that works of art, in particular films and novels, cannot function as thought experiments. Most who claim this make their case by setting the bar for what can count as a philosophical thought experiment very high. It is argued here not that these positions are necessarily mistaken, but that there is a large gray area that is seldom acknowledged between what counts as a philosophical thought experiment narrowly defined and what counts as “being used to illustrate a phil…Read more
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    Federally Funded Elective Abortion
    with William L. Andrews
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (2): 169-184. 2010.
    In this paper we will argue in favor of federal funding of elective abortion, more specifically in support of Medicaid funding. To do so, we will address the restrictions on public funding presently in place and demonstrate that the various justifications offered in their defense are in­adequate. We will then suggest that the ‘failure to enable’ represented by a ban on Federal funding is morally equivalent to an outright prohibition on abortion for the target population. Just as a moral equivale…Read more
  •  4
    Quasi-Fearing Fictions
    Film and Philosophy 5 1-13. 2002.
  •  3
    Comment on Kenneth Brewer’s “Fashion and the Judgment of Taste”
    Southwest Philosophy Review 35 (2): 23-26. 2019.
  •  6
    Game of Thrones
    The Philosophers' Magazine 86 111-112. 2019.
  •  9
    Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)
    Oup Usa. 2018.
    What has Emma Woodhouse to say to a discipline like philosophy? The minutia of daily living on which Jane Austen's Emma concentrates our attention permit a closer look at human emotions and motives. Emma shows how friendships can affect one's ways of dealing with the world, how shame can reconfigure self-understanding. That is, Emma leads us to think philosophically.
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    Cakes as Speech and Cakes as Art in Colorado
    The Philosophers' Magazine 83 9-10. 2018.
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    Comedy and Tragedy as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Reversal and Incongruity as Sources of Insight
    with Daniel Lüthi
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 52 (2): 81. 2018.
    In Umberto Eco’s classic novel The Name of the Rose, we are introduced to a decidedly Platonic fear of laughter. According to the blind librarian Jorge de Burgos, “[l]aughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. It is the peasant’s entertainment, the drunkard’s license;... laughter remains base, a defense for the simple, a mystery desecrated for the plebeians.”1 Laughter could not accompany insight or clarity or revelation. By destroying the last known copy of the second part o…Read more
  •  47
    Kitsch and Bullshit as Cases of Aesthetic and Epistemic Transgression
    Southwest Philosophy Review 34 (1): 59-67. 2018.