Faculty Publications

This 2021 textbook provides a unique approach to reading philosophy. It contains texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about. The texts cover diverse areas of philosophy, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and...

This 2021 collection provides a comprehensive survey of Locke’s work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising almost sixty chapters by a superb team of international contributors, the volume covers the full range of Locke’s thought.

This 2020 volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative change and a host of fascinating questions it prompts. The authors pursue fundamental questions concerning the nature of rationality, the limits of the imagination, and the metaphysics of...

This 2020 book details how both morality and law presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just reasons. It defends that presupposition against four recent challenges posed by neuroscientists.

This 2020 book rethinks Kant's views on human nature by making space for sex, love, and gender within his accounts of moral freedom. It is the first to develop a Kantian account of how to be a sexual, loving, gendered being in moral and emotionally healthy ways.

This 2019 book offers a careful and critical presentation of main lines of argument in G.E.M. Anscombe's classic, Intention, at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, moral philosophy, and the history of analytic philosophy.

The book aims to present and defend a contextualist semantics of reasons locutions, which play a fundamental role in ethics and other areas of contemporary philosophy. The authors then use the contextualist theory to weigh in on central debates in the theory of reasons.

This 2018 book develop a distinctive realist and anti-reductionist account of causation, arguing that it outcompetes alternatives. It addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts, preventions, and omissions.

This 2018 volume tackles central questions in criminal law, constitutional law, jurisprudence, and moral philosophy, drawing inspiration from the profoundly influential work of the philosopher and legal theorist Larry Alexander.

This 2017 book develops an account of transitional (as opposed to retributive, corrective or distributive) justice - and outlines the ethical standards which societies attempting to move from conflict and repression to democratization should follow.

This 2016 book argues for an account of consciousness in Locke as a form of non-evaluative self-awareness, which runs through his work and helps to solve some of the thorniest issues in Locke's philosophy.

This 2015 book is an introduction and guide to the systematic collection and analysis of empirical data in academic philosophy. It prompts reconsideration of traditional methods of armchair speculation and intuition pumping and offers best practices for alternative methods in experimental...

This 2014 collection offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to Locke's life and work, with more than 90 specially commissioned entries, written by a team of leading experts. It is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the fields of Locke Studies and Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.

This (2013) book presents a theory that truth is an inconsistent concept, advocating its replacement for theoretical purposes with 'ascending truth' and 'descending truth'. The author introduces a new possible-worlds semantics and proposes viewing truth as a rational phenomena measurement system to...

This 2011 volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demonstrates the persistent interplay within Epicureanism between historical and contemporary influences from outside the school and a commitment to the founders' authority.

This 2009 book sets out the place of causation in criminal and tort law and outlines the metaphysics presupposed by legal doctrines. It is the first comprehensive attempt since Hart and Honore to clarify the philosophical background to the legal and moral debates prompted by such questions.

This 2008 book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while judges may be morally required to punish citizens for civil disobedience.

This (2007) book is a comprehensive collection of sixteen pivotal papers by Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent figure in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Gathering his often scattered and elusive works, it aims to provide a definitive anthology of Sellars' significant contributions.

This 2006 book argues that in current debates about freedom of will, Kant's theory of freedom has been placed on the record of bad metaphysics.

This 2000 book is a sophisticated, detailed, and original examination of the main ideas that have dominated Anglo-American legal philosophy since the Second World War.

This 1998 book by a leading Anglo-American legal philosopher provides a thorough examination of the theory of criminal responsibility. Moore is among the first to apply a retributivist theory of punishment systematically to criminal law theory.

This 1993 work provides, for the first time, a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both British and American criminal law and its underlying morality.

In this 1984 book, Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends that view from three challenges suggested by psychiatry: that badness is illness, that the unconscious rules our mental life, and that persons are not unified selves.