Online papers

 
Attached below is a post-juvenilia selection of papers and book chapters I have written on a variety of issues in moral and political philosophy, and aesthetics. 


Metaethics and moral epistemology

'The epistemology of ethical intuitions', Philosophy (2011).

'Constructivism and the error theory', in C. Miller (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics (2011).

‘A distinction without a difference? Good advice for moral error theorists’, Ratio (2013).
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'Moral Testimony, Moral Virtue, and the Value of Autonomy', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume (2014)
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'Projection, Indeterminacy and Moral Skepticism', in Diego Machuca (ed.), Moral Skepticism: New Essays (Routledge 2018)

'Companionship in Guilt: by Analogy, Entailment and Absorbtion', in C. Cowie & R. Rowlands (eds.), Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics (Routledge, 2019)

'Testimony, Deference and Value.' In M. Hannon & J, de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (Routledge 2021)
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'Debunking What?' In D. Machuca (ed.), Evolutionary Debunking Arguments: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics,, and Epistemology​ (Routledge, 2023)
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'Could Morality be a Social Construction?', The Journal of Value Inquiry (forthcming)

History of ethics and metaethics

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'Methods of Ethics and The Descent of Man: Darwin and Sidgwick on Ethics and Evolution', Biology and Philosophy (2010).
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'An Assumption of Extreme Significance: Moore, Ross and Spencer on Ethics and Evolution´, in U. Leibovitz & N. Sinclair (eds.) Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 2016)
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´Ethics, Evolution and the a priori: Ross on Spencer and the French Sociologists´, in R. Richards & M. Ruse (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics (2017)
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 'On the Ethics of Naturalism: Sorley and Sidgwick on Ethics and Evolution', in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2021)
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'Smile when you're winning: how to become a Cambridge pragmatist', in S. Misak & H Price (eds.) ​Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the 2014 Dawes Hicks Symposium​, Proceedings of the British Academy (2017)

'Was ist also Loben? Nietzsche on the Ethics of Praise', in The Monist (forthcoming)

Ethics, aesthetics & political philosophy

‘Values of art and the ethical question’ British Journal of Aesthetics (2008).

‘Reproduction, partiality and the nonidentity problem’, in M.A. Roberts & D.T. Wasserman (Eds.) Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (Springer, 2009).

'Consequentialism and Global Ethics', in M. Boylan (ed.), The Morality and Global Justice Reader (Westview, 2011)
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'Autonomy, value and the first person', in L. Radoilska (ed), Autonomy and Mental Disorder (Oxford, 2012).

'Autonomy, consent and the "non-ideal" case', The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (2020)
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‘Who cares where you come from? Cultivating virtues of indifference’, in T. Freeman, F.Ebtehaj, S. Graham & M. Richards (eds.), Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identities. (Cambridge, 2014)

'Who is my Neighbour? Understanding Indifference as a Vice', Philosophy (2014)
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´Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue´, Philosophical Perspectives (2014)

'The Nature and Ethics of Indifference',The Journal of Ethics (2017)
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'Autonomy and Mental Health', in B. Colburn (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy (2022)