Books
Understanding: A Debate with Alexander Bird, Routledge, approx. 80k words, forthcoming.
The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoism, Oxford: OUP, 2010 (xii + 266 pp.). link
Do Animals Have Rights? London: Icon Books, 2005 (247 pp.). link
Articles
“Learning from Others: Understanding and Knowledge” in Forms of Knowledge: Essays on the Unity and Heterogeneity of Knowledge (Lucy Campbell ed.), pp. 311–27, Oxford: OUP, 2025. link
“Understanding” in A Companion to Epistemology, 3rd ed. (Kurt Sylvan, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa and Matthias Steup eds), pp. 432–38, Wiley Blackwell, 2025. link
“Aesthetic obligation” in The Future of Normativity (Simon Kirchin ed.), pp. 251–71, Oxford: OUP, 2025. link
“Kant on virtue” in The Oxford Handbook of Kant (Anil Gomes and Andrew Stephenson eds), pp. 372–88, Oxford: OUP, 2024. link
“Standing to blame: Can it be defended?” in Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics (Ruth Chang and Amia Srinivasan eds), pp. 228–38, Oxford: OUP, 2024. link
“The normativity of aesthetics” in Oxford Studies in Metaethics vol. 18 (Russ Shafer-Landau ed.), pp.116–36, Oxford: OUP, 2023. link
“Trustworthiness, responsibility and virtue” Philosophical Quarterly 73: 743–61, 2023. link
“Aesthetic testimony, understanding and virtue”, Noûs 56: 21–39, 2022. link
“Moral testimony: Transmission versus propagation” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 101: 399–414, 2020. link
“Against creativity” (with Alexander Bird), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99: 694–713, 2019. link
“What does it take to act for moral reasons” in The Many Moral Rationalisms (Karen Jones and Francois Schroeter eds), pp. 247–63, Oxford: OUP, 2018. link
“Moral and aesthetic virtue” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 118: 255–74, 2018. link
“Creativity without value” (with Alexander Bird), in Creativity and Philosophy (Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran eds), pp. 107–19, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. link
“Moral expertise” in the Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology (Karen Jones ed.), pp. 469–481, New York: Routledge, 2018. link
“Aesthetic understanding” in Making Sense of the World: New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding, (Stephen Grimm ed.), pp. 159–76, Oxford: OUP, 2017. link
“Virtue and cognition” in Questions of Character (Iskra Fileva ed.), pp. 147–57, Oxford: OUP, 2016. link
“Understanding why” Noûs 50: 661–88, 2016. link
“Cognitivism about moral judgement” Oxford Studies in Metaethics volume 10, (Russ Shafer-Landau ed.), 1–25, 2015. link
“The intellectuals and the virtues” Ethics 126, 7–36, 2015. link
“Gesinnung: responsibility, moral worth, and character” in Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Pure Reason, A Critical Guide (Gordon Michaelson ed.), pp. 79–97, Cambridge: CUP, 2014. link
"Moral Testimony” Philosophy Compass 8: 552–59, 2013. link
“Reply to Jones and Schroeter” Analyse & Kritik 34: 231–36, 2013. link
“Faultless moral disagreement” Ratio 26: 410–27, 2013. link
“Moral epistemology” in New Waves in Metaethics (Michael Brady ed.), pp. 249–63, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. link
“Utilitarianism, contractualism and demandingness” Philosophical Quarterly 60: 225–42, 2010. link
“Moral testimony and moral epistemology” Ethics 120: 94–127, 2009. link
“Kant on happiness in the Groundwork” in Kant’s ‘Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals’: A Critical Guide (Jens Timmermann ed.), pp.29–44, Cambridge: CUP, 2009. link
“Supervenience and moral realism” in Reduction, Abstraction, Analysis (A. Hieke and H. Leitgeb eds.), pp. 163–77, Frankfurt: de Gruyter, 2009. link
“Value, reason and hedonism” Utilitas 20: 50–8, 2008. link
“Kantian value realism” Ratio 21:182–200, 2008. link
“Intentions, foreseen consequences and the doctrine of double effect.” Philosophical Studies, 133: 257–83, 2007. link
“The Principle of Right: Practical reason and justification in Kant’s ethics and politics” Politics and Ethics Review 3: 24–36, 2007. link
“Practical Reason, Value and Action” Journal of Moral Philosophy 4: 375–92, 2007. link
“Kant on happiness and reason” History of Philosophy Quarterly 23: 243–61, 2006. link
“Rational nature as the source of value.” Kantian Review 10, 81–101, 2005. link
“Is ethics rationally required?” Inquiry 47: 1–19, 2004. link
“The significance of the dualism of practical reason.” Utilitas 15, 315–29, 2003. link
“Defending double effect.” Philosophical Studies 116: 133–52, 2003. link
“Duties and duties to the self.” American Philosophical Quarterly 40: 131-43, 2003. link