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(THEY ARE NOT FINAL VERSIONS, SO THEY ARE NOT FOR QUOTATION.)
 | "Permission/prohibition logic: A generalization of imperative logic" [WORD] [PDF] |
| "Beyond ought-implies-can: Impersonal obligatoriness implies historical contingency" [WORD] [PDF] |
| "Imperative foundations for the metaphysics of obligations" (long version) [WORD] [PDF] |
| "New foundations for imperative logic IV: Natural deduction" (long version) [WORD] [PDF] |
| "New foundations for deontic logic: A preliminary sketch" [WORD] [PDF] |
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Philosophical and formal logic
| "Natural deduction for first-order pure imperative logic" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "New foundations for imperative logic IV: Natural deduction" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "Informative aboutness" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "New foundations for imperative logic III: A general definition of argument validity" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
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| "New foundations for imperative logic II: Pure imperative inference" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "In defense of imperative inference" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "New foundations for imperative logic I: Logical connectives, consistency, and quantifiers" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
Ethics
| "Imperative foundations for the metaphysics of obligations" [WORD] [PDF] |
| "'Ought' implies 'can' but does not imply 'must': An asymmetry between becoming infeasible and becoming overridden" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "I ought, therefore I can obey" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "Against moral character evaluations: The undetectability of virtue and vice" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "I ought, therefore I can" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
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"The indeterminacy paradox: Character evaluations and human psychology" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
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"Aristotle on the best good: Is Nicomachean Ethics 1094a18-22 fallacious?" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
Philosophy of science
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"Hempel’s raven paradox: A lacuna in the standard Bayesian solution" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "Epsilon-ergodicity and the success of equilibrium statistical mechanics" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
Formal epistemology
| "Have your cake and eat it too: The Old Principal Principle reconciled with the New" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| "Who's afraid of undermining? Why the Principal Principle might not contradict Humean Supervenience" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
Metaphysics
| "Imperative foundations for the metaphysics of obligations" [WORD] ]PDF] |
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"Can I kill my younger self? Time travel and the RetroSuicide paradox" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
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"Do cry over spilt milk: Possibly you can change the past" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
Comments & book reviews
| Comments on Greg Restall & Gillian Russell's "Barriers to implication" [WORD] [PDF] [PowerPoint] |
| Review of Sentimental rules: On the natural foundations of moral judgment, by Shaun Nichols [WORD] [PDF] |
| Review of Lack of character: Personality and moral behavior, by John Doris [WORD] [PDF] |
