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Faculty Publications

  • 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.
  • This 2019 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 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 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 book rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. The result is a powerful critique of the power relations that shape how we understand and theorize political violence.
  • 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 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 handle the liar and other paradoxes.
  • 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.