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'A Definition of Physicalism', Analysis, Vol. 53, 1993, pp. 213-23.
'A Problem for Expressivists' (with Frank Jackson), Analysis, Vol. 58, 1998, pp. 239-51.
'A Sensible Perspectivism' in Maria Baghramian and Attracta Ingram, eds., Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity, New York, Routledge, 2000, pp. 60-82.
'A Theory of Justice?' in Theory and Decision, Vol IV, 1974, pp.311-24.
‘A Theory of Normal and Ideal Conditions’, Philosophical Studies, 1999, Vol 96, pp. 21-44
'Agency-Freedom and Option-Freedom', Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 15, 2003, pp. 387-403.
'Aggregating Sets of Judgments: An Impossibility Result' (with Christian List), Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 18, 2002, pp. 89-110.
'Aggregating Sets of Judgments: Two Impossibility Results Compared', Synthese, Vol. 140, 2004, pp. 207-35.
'Akrasia, Collective and Individual' in Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds., Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 68-96.
'An Epistemic Free-Riding Problem?' (with Christian List) in Philip Catton and Graham Macdonald, ed., Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, London, Routledge, 2004, pp. 128-58.
'Backgrounding Desire' (with Michael Smith), Philosophical Review, Vol 99, 1990, pp. 565-92.
'Bare Functional Desire' (with Huw Price), Analysis, Vol. 49, 1989, pp. 162-69.
'Brandt on Self-Control' (with Michael Smith) in Brad Hooker, ed., Rationality, Rules and Utility: New Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Richard B. Brandt, Boulder, Westview Press, 1993, pp. 33-50.
'Broad-Minded Explanation and Psychology' in Philip Pettit and John McDowell, eds., Subject, Thought & Context, 1986, pp. 17-58.
‘Can Contract Theory Ground Morality?’, in J.Dreier, ed., Moral Theories, Blackwell, Oxford, 2006.
'Capability and Freedom: A Defense of Sen', Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 17, 2001, pp. 1-20.
'Causality at Higher Levels' for Dan Sperber, ed., Causal Understanding in Cognition and Culture, Oxford Unversity Press, 1995.
'Causation in the Philosophy of Mind' (with Frank Jackson), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 50, 1990, pp. 195-214.
Collective Intentions' in N. Naffine, R. Owens, and J. Williams, eds., Intention in Law and Philosophy, Ashgate, Dartmouth, 2001, pp. 241-54.
'Consequentialism and Moral Psychology', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol 2, 1994, pp. 1-17.
'Consequentialism and Respect for Persons', Ethics, Vol. 100, 1989, pp. 116-26.
'Consequentialism', in Peter Singer, ed., A Companion to Ethics, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1991, pp. 230-37.
‘Construing Sen on Commitment’, Economics and Philosophy, Vol 21, 2005, 15-32.
'Culture in the Constitution of a Republic', The Republic (Dublin), Vol. 3, 2003, pp. 7-26.
'Decision Theory and Folk Psychology', in Michael Bacharach and Susan Hurley, eds, Foundations of Decision Theory: Issues and Advances, Blackwells, Oxford, 1991, pp. 147-75.
'Decision Theory, Political Theory and the Hats Hypothesis', in Fred D'Agostino, ed., Freedom & Rationality: Festschrift for John Watkins, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 17, Boston, Kluwer, 1989.
‘Defining and Defending Social Holism’, Philosophical Explorations, 1998, Vol 1, pp. 169-84.
'Deliberative Democracy and the Discursive Dilemma', Philosophical Issues, Vol. 11, 2001, pp. 268-99.
'Deliberative Democracy, the Discursive Dilemma and Republican Theory' in James Fishkin and Peter Laslett, eds., Philosophy, Politics and Society, Vol. 7, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 138-62.
'Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory', Nomos, Vol. 42, 2000, pp. 105-44.
‘Democracy, National and International’, Monist, Vol 89, 2006, 302-25.
'Depoliticizing Democracy', Ratio Juris, Vol. 17, 2004, pp. 52-65.
'Descriptivism, Rigidified and Anchored', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 118, 2004, pp. 323-38.
'Desire Beyond Belief' (with Alan Hajek), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 81, no. 1, 2004, pp. 77-92.
'Determinism with Deliberation', Analysis, Vol. 49, 1989, pp. 42-44.
'Embracing Objectivity in Ethics' in Brian Leiter, ed., Objectivity in Law and Morals, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 234-86.
‘Enfranchising Silence: An Argument for Freedom of Speech', in Tom Campbell and Wojciech Sadurksi, eds, Freedom of Communication, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994, pp. 45-56.
'Esteem and Internet Identities' (with Geoffrey Brennan), Analyse und Kritik, Vol. 26, 2004, pp. 139-57.
‘Ethical Particularism and Patterns’ (with Frank Jackson and Michael Smith), in Brad Hooker and Margaret Olivia Little, eds, Moral Particularism, Oxford University Press, 2000, 79-99.
'Existentialism, Quietism and the Role of Philosophy' in Brian Leiter, ed., The Future for Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 304-27.
'Folk Belief and Commonplace Belief' (with Frank Jackson), Mind and Language, Vol 8, 1993, pp. 298-305.
'Found: The Missing Explanation' (with Peter Menzies), Analysis, Vol. 53, 1993, pp. 100-09.
'Free Riding and Foul Dealing', Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 83, 1986, pp. 361-79.
'Freedom as Antipower', Ethics, Vol. 106, 1996, pp. 576-604.
'Freedom in Belief and Desire' (with Michael Smith), Journal of Philosophy, Vol 93, 1996, pp. 429-449.
‘Freedom in the Market’, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol 5, 2006, 131-49.
'Freedom with Honor: A Republican Ideal', Social Research, Vol. 64, 1997, pp. 52-76.
‘Functional Explanation and Virtual Selection’, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol 47, 1996, pp. 291-302.
'Functionalism and Broad Content' (with Frank Jackson), Mind, Vol 97,1988, pp.381-400.
'Global Consequentialism' (with Michael Smith) in Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason, and Dale E. Miller, eds., Morality, Rules and Consequences: A Critical Reader, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2000, pp. 121-33.
‘Group Agency and Supervenience’ (with Christian List), in Southern Journal of Philosophy (Spindel Conference 2005), Vol 44, 2006.
'Groups with Minds of their Own' in Frederick Schmitt, ed., Socializing Metaphysics, New York, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, pp. 167-93.
'Habermas on Truth and Justice' in G.H.R. Parkinson, ed., Marx and Marxisms, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982, pp.207-228.
'Hands Invisible and Intangible' (with Geoffrey Brennan), Synthese, Vol. 94, 1993, pp. 191-225.
'Hope and Its Place in Mind' in V. Braithwaite, ed., Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 592, 2004, pp. 152-65.
'Humeans, Anti-Humeans and Motivation', Mind, Vol. 96, 1987, pp. 530-33.
'In Defence of Explanatory Ecumenism' (with Frank Jackson), Economics and Philosophy, Vol 8, 1992, pp. 1-21.
'In Defence of Fictionalism about Possible Worlds' (with Peter Menzies), Analysis, Vol. 54, 1994, pp. 27-36.
'In Defence of Folk Psychology' (with Frank Jackson), Philosophical Studies, Vol 57, 1990, pp 7-30.
'Introduction' in Philip Pettit, ed., Consequentialism, Aldershot, Dartmouth Press, 1993, pp. xiii-xix.
'Instituting a Research Ethic: Chilling and Cautionary Tales', in Bioethics, Vol 6, 1992, pp. 89-112.
'Is Criminal Justice Politically Feasible?', Buffalo Criminal Law Review (Special Issue), Vol. 5, no. 2, 2002, pp. 427-50.
‘Joint Actions and Group Agents’ (with David Schweikard), Philosophy of Social Sciences, Vol 36, 2006, 18-39.
'Keeping Republican Freedom Simple: On a Difference with Quentin Skinner', Political Theory, Vol. 30, 2002, pp. 339-56.
'Liberty and Leviathan', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 4, 2005, pp. 131-151.
'Locke, Expressivism, Conditionals' (with Frank Jackson), Analysis, Vol. 63, 2003, pp. 86-92.
'Looks as Powers', Philosophical Issues, Vol. 13, 2003, pp. 221-52.
'Love and its Place in Moral Discourse' in Roger Lamb, ed., Love Analyzed, Boulder, Westview Press, 1997, pp. 153-63.
'Microphysicalism without Contingent Micro-Macro Laws', Analysis, Vol. 54, 1994, pp. 253-57.
'Microphysicalism, Dottism, and Reduction', Analysis, Vol. 55, 1995, pp. 141-46.
'Minority Claims Under Two Conceptions of Democracy' in Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton, and Will Sanders, eds., Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 199-215.
'Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation' (with Frank Jackson), Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 45, 1995, pp. 20-40.
'Moral Functionalism, Supervenience, and Reductionism' (with Frank Jackson), Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 46, 1996, pp. 82-86.
'Motion Blindness and the Knowledge Argument' in Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa, and Daniel Stoljar, eds., The Knowledge Argument, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2004, pp. 105-42.
‘Neuroscience and Agent-Control’ in Distributed Cognition And The Will. MIT Press. Edited by David Spurrett, Don Ross, Harold Kincaid and Lynn Stephens, forthcoming.
'Non-Consequentialism and Political Philosophy' in David Schmidtz, ed., Robert Nozick, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 83-104.
'Non-consequentialism and Universalisability', Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, 2000, pp. 175-90.
‘Noumenalism and Response-dependence’, Monist, 1998, Vol 81, pp. 112-32.
‘On the Many as One’ (with Christian List), Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2005, Vol 33, 377-90.
‘On Thinking How to Live: A Cognitivist View’, Critical Notice of Allan Gibbard Thinking How to Live, Harvard University Press, London, 2003, Mind, Vol 115, 2006, 1083-1106.
'Parfit's P' (with Michael Smith), in Jonathan Dancy, ed., Reading Parfit, Blackwell, Oxford, 1997, 71-95.
'Philosophy After Rorty' in A. Holland, ed., Philosophy and its History, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1985, pp.69-83.
'Political Theory: An Overview' in Philip Pettit, ed., Contemporary Political Theory, 1991, pp. 1-16
'Practical Belief and Philosophical Theory', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, 1998, pp. 15-33.
'Practical Unreason' (with Michael Smith), Mind, Vol 102, 1993, pp. 53-80.
‘Preference, Deliberation and Satisfaction’ in S.Olsaretti, ed. Preferences and Well-Being: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 59, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, 131-53.
'Preserving the Prisoner's Dilemma', Synthese, Vol. 68, 1986, pp. 181-84.
'Prisons, Politicians and Democracy' in J. Dunne, A. Ingram, F. Litton, eds., Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2000, pp. 155-69.
'Program Explanation: A General Perspective' (with Frank Jackson), Analysis, Vol 50, 1990, pp. 107-17.
'Rational Choice, Functional Selection and Empty Black Boxes', Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 7, 2000, pp. 33-57.
'Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency’, The Dialectica Lecture, 2006, Dialectica, Vol 61, 2007, 495-519.
‘Rawls’s Peoples’ in Rex Martin and David Reidy, eds, Rawls's Law of Peoples: A realistic utopia, Blackwell, Oxford, 2006, 38-56.
'Rawls's Political Ontology', Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 4, 2005, pp. 157-74.
'Realism and Response-dependence', Mind, Vol 100, 1991, pp. 587-626.
'Realism and Truth: A Comment on Crispin Wright's Truth and Objectivity', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 56, 1996, pp. 883-90.
'Republican Freedom and Contestatory Democratization' in Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, ed., Democracy's Value, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 163-90.
'Republican Political Theory' in Andrew Vincent, ed., Political Theory: Tradition, Diversity and Ideology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 112-32.
'Republican Theory and Criminal Punishment', Utilitas, Vol. 9, 1997, pp. 59-79.
'Republican Theory and Political Trust' in M. Levi and V. Braithwaite, eds., Trust and Governance, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1998, pp. 295-314.
‘Republicanism and Redistribution’ in Maurice Salles and John Weymark, eds, Justice, Political Liberalism and Utilitarianism, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 389-410.
‘Resilience as the Explanandum of Social Theory’ in Ian Shapiro and Sonu Bedi, eds, Contingency, NYU Press, New York, 2007.
'Response-Dependence without Tears' (with Frank Jackson), Philosophical Issues, Vol. 12, 2002, pp. 97-117.
‘Responsibility Incorporated’, Ethics, Vol 117, 2007, 171-201.
'Restrictive Consequentialism' (with Geoffrey Brennan), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol 64, 1986, pp.438-55.
'Reworking Sandel's Republicanism', Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 95, 1998, pp. 73-96.
'Rights, Constraints and Trumps', Analysis, Vol. 47, 1987, pp. 8-14.
'Satisficing Consequentialism' in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 58, 1984, pp.165-76.
'Some Content is Narrow' (with Frank Jackson), in John Heil and Al Meile, eds, Mental Causation, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 259-82.
'Strategies for Free Will Compatibilism', Analysis, Vol. 56, 1996, pp. 191-201.
'Structural Explanation and Social Theory' (with Frank Jackson), in David Charles and Kathleen Lennon, eds, Reduction, Explanation and Realism, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 97-131.
'Terms, Things and Response-Dependence', European Review of Philosophy, Vol. 3, 1998, pp. 61-72.
'The Backward Induction Paradox' (with Robert Sugden), Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 86, 1989, pp. 169-82.
‘The Capacity to Have Done Otherwise’ in Peter Cane and John Gardner, eds, Relating to Responsibility: Essays in Honour of Tony Honoré on his 80th Birthday, Hart, 2001, 21-35.
'The Common Good' in Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin and Carole Pateman, eds., Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 150-69.
'The Consequentialist Can Recognise Rights', Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 35, 1988, pp. 537-51.
‘The Cunning of Trust’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol 24, 1995, pp. 202-25.
'The Demarcation of Metaphor' in Language and Communication, Vol 2, 1982, pp.1-12.
'The Determinacy of Republican Policy: A Reply to McMahon', Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 34, 2006, pp. 275-83.
'The Domination Complaint', Nomos, Vol. 46, 2005, pp. 87-117.
'The Hidden Economy of Esteem' (with Geoffrey Brennan), Economics and Philosophy, Vol. 16, 2000, pp. 77-98.
'The Impossibility of a Paretian Loyalist' (with Peter Gaerdenfors), Theory and Decision, Vol. 19, 1989, pp. 207-16.
'The Prisoner's Dilemma is an Unexploitable Newcomb Problem', Synthese, Vol. 76, 1988, pp. 123-34.
'The Reality of Rule-Following', Mind, Vol. 99, 1990, pp. 1-21.
'The Self-Regulating Mind' (with Victoria McGeer), Language and Communication, Vol. 22, 2002, pp. 281-99.
'The Strong Sociology of Knowledge without Relativism', in Robert Nola, ed., Realism and Relativism in Science, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 81-91.
'The Tree of Liberty: Republicanism, American, French and Irish' in Field Day Review, Vol. 1, 2005, pp. 29-41.
'The Truth in Deontology' (with Michael Smith) in R.J. Wallace, P. Pettit, S. Scheffler, and M. Smith, Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 153-75.
‘The Virtual Reality of Homo Economicus’, Monist, Vol 78, 1995, 308-329.
‘Three Aspects of Rational Explanation: Programming, Normalising, Interpretative’, Rules, Reasons, and Norms: Selected Essays, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
'Towards a Social Democratic Theory of the State', Political Studies, Vol. 35, 1987, pp.42-55.
'Towards Interpretation', Philosophia, Vol 23, 1994, pp. 157-70.
'Trust, Reliance and the Internet', Analyse und Kritik, Vol. 26, 2004, pp. 108-21.
'Two Sources of Morality', Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 18, no. 2, 2001, pp. 102-28.
'Universalizability without Utilitarianism', Mind, Vol. 96, 1987, pp. 74-82.
'Unveiling the Vote' (with Geoffrey Brennan), British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 20, 1990, pp. 311-33.
‘Value-mistaken and Virtue-mistaken Norms’ in J.Kuehnelt, ed., Political Legitimization without Morality?, Springer, 2008, 139-56.
'Virtus Normativa: Rational Choice Perspectives', Ethics, Vol 100, 1990, pp. 725-55.
‘Why and How Philosophy Matters to Politics’, in R.E.Goodin and C.Tilly, eds, Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Studies, Oxford University Press, 2006.
'Winch's Double-Edged Idea of a Social Science', History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 13, 2000, pp. 63-77.
