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Selected Works

Forthcoming Books/ Books Under Contract:

The Limits of Free Will: An Introduction to the Classical and Contemporary Debate. (Blackwell)

The Philosophy of Free Will: Selected Contemporary Readings. Edited with Oisin Deery. (Oxford University Press).

Oxford Handbook of David Hume, editor. (Oxford University Press).

The Idea of British Empiricism: From Hobbes to Hume (Routledge).

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited and Introduced with Peter Millican. (Oxford University Press, World's Classics Series).

Bernard Williams: Ethics from a Human Point of View. (Polity Press)

Forthcoming Papers:

"Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility"; invited contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, 2nd ed., ed. Robert Kane (Oxford University Press).

"Liberty, Law and Leviathan: Hobbes and the Free Will Problem"; invited contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, eds. Desmond Clarke and Catherine Wilson (Oxford University Press).

"Causation, Cosmology and the Limits of Reason", invited contribution to The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century, ed. by James Harris (Oxford University Press).

"Hume's Legacy". Invited contributor to The Continuum Companion to David Hume, eds. Alan Bailey and Dan O'Brien (Continuum Publishers)

"Selective Hard Compatibilism", in Joseph Campbell, Michael O'Rourke and Harry Silverstein, eds., Action, Ethics and Responsibility: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 7 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming). | download

"Free Will and Irreligion in Hume's Treatise", in Donald Ainslie, editor, Hume's Treatise: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press: forthcoming). | download

Free Will and Moral Responsibility:

"Free Will, Art and Morality", The Journal of Ethics, 12 (2008), 307-25. Invited contribution to special edition on Metaphysics and Moral Responsibility; guest editor Joseph Campbell. | download

"Practical Reason and Motivational Scepticism", in Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, Dieter Schoenecker, eds.,   Moralische Motivation. Kant und die Alternativen. Kant-Forschungen 16.2006. VIII, 350 Seiten. (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2006), 287-296. | download

"Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense", Philosophical Topics, 32 (2004), 287-305. [Volume on Agency edited by John M. Fischer]. | download

"Critical Notice of John M. Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Responsibility and Control", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 32 (2002), 587-606. | download

"Pessimists, Pollyannas and the New Compatibilism", in Robert Kane, editor, The Oxford Handbook on Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2002; pbk. 2005), 229-256. | download

"Compatibilist-Fatalism", in Ton van den Beld, editor, Moral Responsibility and Ontology (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000), 199-218. | download

"Strawson's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility", Ethics, 101 (1992), 287-302. Reprinted in John M. Fischer, ed., Free Will: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2005). | download

"Causation, Compulsion and Compatibilism", American Philosophical Quarterly, 25 (1988), 313 - 321.

"Sorabji and the Dilemma of Determinism", Analysis, 44 (1984), 166 - 172.

Hume & Early Modern Philosophy:

"Hume on Free Will", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007).

"Hume's Treatise and the Problem of Virtuous Atheism" [translation by Mateusz Oleksy and Tomasz Sieczkowski, in Tomasz Sieczkowski, ed., Nowa Krytyka, 21 (2008). [Poland] | download | Polish translation

"Hume's Lucretian Mission: Is it Self-Refuting?", Monist, 90 (2007), 182-199. [The Scottish Philosophical Tradition: Empirical, Phenomenological Intuitionist. Advisory editor J.J. Haldane.] | download

"Moral Sense and Virtue in Hume's Ethics", in Tim Chappell, ed., Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism and Contemporary Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). | download

"Hume on Religion", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2005).

"L'irreligione e lo spettatore imparziale nel sistema morale di Adam Smith" [Irreligion and the Impartial Spectator in Smith's Moral System], translated by E. Lecaldano, Rivista di Filosofia (2005). | download (English) | download (Italian)

"Butler's 'Future State' and Hume's 'Guide of Life'", Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42 (2004), 425-448. | download

"The Material World and Natural Religion in Hume's Treatise", Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 85 (2003), 269-303. | download

"Smith on Moral Sentiment and Moral Luck", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 16 (1999), 37-58. | download

"Wishart, Baxter and Hume's Letter from a Gentleman", Hume Studies, 23 (1997), 245-276. | download

"Hume's Treatise and Hobbes's The Elements of Law", Journal of the History of Ideas, 46 (1985), 51 - 64.

"The Naturalism of Hume's 'Reconciling Project'", Mind, 92 (1983), 593-600.

Political Philosophy:

"Locke on Express and Tacit Consent: Misinterpretations and Inconsistencies", Political Theory, 14 (1986), 291- 306. Reprinted in J.R.Milton, ed., Locke's Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy (Ashgate, 1999), 465-482.

Newspaper article:

"The supremacy of God' does not belong in the Constitution": The Globe & Mail, June 11, 1999. | download

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