Faculty Publications
Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
Forthcoming
Bishop, Michael. "Why the Generality Problem is Everybody's Problem," Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Omissions, Responsibility, and Symmetry," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Opposing Powers," Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Intentional Omissions," Nous, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Skilled Activity and the Causal Theory of Action," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Reply to Sartorio," in Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action, eds. Jesús Aguilar and Andrei Buckareff. MIT Press, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Making Up One's Mind," in Action, Ethics, and Responsibility: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 7, ed. Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Agent Causation," in A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, eds. Constantine Sandis and Timothy O'Connor, Blackwell, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Freedom and Responsibility," in The Routledge Companion to Ethics, ed. John Skorupski, Routledge, forthcoming.
Clarke, Randolph. "Determinism and our Self-Conception," contribution to a symposium on John Fischer's My Way, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
Costa, M. Victoria. “Neo-Republicanism, Freedom as Non-Domination and Citizen Virtue,” Politics, Philosophy and Economics, forthcoming.
Gert, Joshua. “Color Constancy, Complexity, and Counterfactual,” Noûs, forthcoming.
Gert, Joshua. “Desires, Reasons, and Rationality,” American Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.
Gert, Joshua. “Response-Dependence and Normative Bedrock,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
Gert, Joshua. “Towards an Epistemology of Certain Substantive A Priori Normative Truths,” Metaphilosophy, Vol. 40, No. 2 (forthcoming 2009).
Justus, James. “A Case Study in Concept Determination: Ecological Diversity.” In Brown, B.; K. de Laplante; and K. Peacock (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Ecology. Elsevier Press (forthcoming).
Leiber, Justin. "The First Social Psychologist," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, forthcoming.
Mele, Alfred. "Testing Free Will," Neuroethics (forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Moral Responsibility and History Revisited," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, forthcoming.
Mele, Alfred. "Motivational Strength," in T. O'Connor and C. Sandis, eds. A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Blackwell, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Teleological Explanations of Actions: Anticausalism vs. Causalism," in J. Aguilar and A. Buckareff, eds. Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action (MIT Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Libet on Free Will: Readiness Potentials, Decisions, and Awareness," in L. Nadel and W. Sinnott-Armstrong, eds. Libet, Free Will, and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Manipulation, Compatibilism, and Moral Responsibility," Journal of Ethics (forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Delusional Confabulations and Self-Deception," in W. Hirstein, ed. Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Have I Unmasked Self-Deception or Am I Self-Deceived?," in C. Martin, ed. The Philosophy of Deception (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Conscious Intentions," in J. Campbell, M. O'Rourke, and H. Silverstein, eds. Action, Ethics, and Responsibility (MIT Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Mental Action: A Case Study," in L. O'Brien and M. Soteriou, eds. Mental Actions and Agency (Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Action and Mind," in P. Calvo and J. Symons, eds. Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology (Routledge, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. “Causation, Action, and Free Will,” in H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock, and P. Menzies, eds. Oxford Handbook of Causation (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. "Self-Deception," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, E. Craig, ed. Routledge, forthcoming.
Mele, Alfred. “Free Will,” Encyclopedia of Consciousness, W. Banks, ed. (Elsevier, forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. “Freedom of Will,” Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience (forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. “Action Theory,” Encyclopedia Americana (forthcoming).
Mele, Alfred. Review of B. Enç, How We Act (Clarendon Press, 2002), The Times Literary Supplement, forthcoming.
Roberts, John. "A Mystery at the Heart of Berkeley's Metaphysics," Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, forthcoming.
Roberts, John. "'Strange Impotence of Men': Immaterialism, Anemic Agents, and Immanent Causation" British Journal for the History of Philosophy, forthcoming.
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
McKenna, Michael. “Compatibilism and Desert.” Philosophical Studies 144.1 (2009): 3-13.
April 2009
Clarke, Randolph. "Dispositions, Abilities to Act, and Free Will: The New Dispositionalism," Mind, 118 (2009), 323-51.
Costa, M. Victoria. “Justice as Fairness, Civic Identity and Patriotic Education,” Public Affairs Quarterly 23, 2, 2009, 95-114.
Justus, J.; Colyvan, M.; Regan, H.; Maguire, L. “Buying into Conservation: Intrinsic versus Instrumental Value.” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24 (2009): 187–191.
Mele, Alfred. Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will. Oxford University Press, 2009.
March 2009
Mele, Alfred. “Intention and Intentional Action,” in B. McLaughlin and A. Beckermann, eds. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, (2009), pp. 691-710.
February 2009
Clarke, Randolph. Interview in Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions, eds. Jesús Aguilar and Andrei Buckareff. New York: Automatic Press/VIP, 2009, pp. 25-30.
McKenna, Michael. Interview in Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions, eds. Jesús Aguilar and Andrei Buckareff. New York: Automatic Press/VIP, 2009, pp. 165-82.
Mele, Alfred. Interview in Philosophy of Action: 5 Questions, eds. J. Aguilar and A. Buckareff. New York: Automatic Press/VIP, 2009, pp. 183-194.
January 2009
Gert, Joshua. “Williams on Reasons and Rationality,” in Dan Callcut, ed. Reading Bernard Williams, Routledge, 2009, pp. 73-93.
McNaughton, David and Rawling, J. Piers. "Benefits, Holism, and the Aggregation of Value," Social Philosophy & Policy 26 (2009), 354-374.
Mele, Alfred. "Moral Responsibility and Agents' Histories," Philosophical Studies (2009) 142: 161-181.
December 2008
Gert, Joshua. “Putting Particularism in its Place,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 89 (2008), pp 312-324.
McKenna, Michael; Russell, Paul (eds.) Free Will and Reactive Attitudes: Perspectives on P.F. Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment" Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, 2008.
McKenna, Michael. “Frankfurt’s Argument against Alternative Possibilities: Looking Beyond the Examples,” Nous 42 (2008): 770-93.
November 2008
Maguire, L.; Justus, J. “Why Intrinsic Value is a Poor Basis for Conservation Decisions.” Bioscience 58 (2008): 910–911.
Justus, James. “Exotic Species.” In Callicott, J. B. and R. Frodeman (eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. Farmington, MI: Thomas Gale, 412–414 (2008).
October 2008
Costa, M. Victoria. “El manejo de la información médica: El consentimiento informado y la confidencialidad,” Florencia Luna and Arleen L.F. Salles (eds.), Bioética: Nuevas reflexiones sobre debates clásicos, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008, 165-196.
Dancy, Russell. Review of George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry. In Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008), 634-636.
Justus, James. “Ecological and Lyapunov Stability.” Philosophy of Science 75 (2008): 421–436.
September 2008
Clarke, Randolph. "Incompatibilist (Nondeterministic) Theories of Free Will," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-theories/. First published 2000; revised 2004; revised 2008.
Gert, Joshua. “Vague Terms, Indexicals, and Vague Indexicals,” Philosophical Studies, Vol. 140, No. 3 (2008), pp. 437-445.
August 2008
Crosby, Donald. Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil.State University of New York Press, 2008.
July 2008
Clarke, Randolph. "Intrinsic Finks," Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), 512-18.
McKenna, Michael. “A Hard-line Reply to Pereboom’s Four-case Argument” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77.1(2009): 142-59.
McKenna, Michael. “Saying Goodbye to the Direct Argument the Right Way.” Philosophical Review 117.3 (2008): 349-383.
McKenna, Michael, and Vadakin, Aron. Review of George Sher, In Praise of Blame, Ethics 118 (2008), 751-756.
Mele, Alfred. "Intentional Action: Two-and-a-half Folk Concepts" (with F.Cushman), in J. Knobe and S. Nichols, eds. Experimental Philosophy. Oxford University Press, (2008), pp. 171-188.
June 2008
Clarke, Randolph. "Autonomous Reasons for Intending," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), 191-212.
Justus, J.; Fuller, T.; and Sarkar, S. “Influence of Representation Targets on the Total Area of Conservation Area Networks.” Conservation Biology 22 (2008): 673–682.
May 2008
McKenna, Michael. “Putting the Lie on the Control Condition for Moral Responsibility.” Philosophical Studies 139.1(2008): 29-37.
April 2008
March 2008
Gert, Joshua. “What Colors Could Not Be: An Argument for Color Primitivism,” The Journal of Philosophy, Vol 105, No. 3 (2008), pp. 128-157.
Justus, James. “Complexity, Diversity, Stability.” In Sarkar, S. and A. Plutynski (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 321–350 (2008).
McNaughton, David and Rawling, J. Piers. "Holism about Value" in Challenging Moral Particularism, eds. Mark Noriss Lance, Matjaz Potrc, and Vojko Stahovnik. New York: Routledge, 2008.
February 2008
Leiber, Justin. "The Wiles of Evolutionary Psychology and the Indeterminacy of Selection," Philosophical Forum 39 (2008), 53-72.
Mele, Alfred. "Proximal Intentions, Intention-Reports, and Vetoing," Philosophical Psychology 21 (2008): 1-14.
Mele, Alfred. "Psychology and Free Will: a Commentary," in J. Baer, J.C. Kaufman, and R. Baumeister, eds. Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2008), 325-346.
January 2008
Gert, Joshua. “Michael Smith and the Rationality of Immoral Action,” The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 12, No 1 (2008), pp. 1-23.
McKenna, Michael with Levy, Neil. “Recent Work on Free Will and Moral Responsibility.” Philosophical Compass 3 (2008): 96-133.
McKenna, Michael. “Ultimacy and Sweet Jane,” In D. Cohen and N. Trakakis, eds., Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Mele, Alfred. "Recent Work on Free Will and Science," American Philosophical Quarterly 45 (2008): 107-129.