Articles
“Is Socialism Viable? A Reply to David Gordon.” February 21, 2024. Mises Institute: Power & Market Blog
“Sehon Responds on Socialism,” (my reply to Bryan Caplan’s reflections on our October 16, 2023 debate). October 25, 2023. Bet On It.
“Is Redistribution Theft?” February 5, 2021. Pea Soup: Philosophy, Ethics, Academia.
“Two Problems with the Nonaggression Principle,” Mises Institute: Power & Market Blog.
“No, the Nazis Were Not Socialists,” October 2020, Jacobin.
“Medical Reasoning and Doctor-Patient Communication,” July 2019, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, co-authored with Donald Stanley.
“Anti-Anti-Communism,” Aeon, March 2017, co-authored with Kristen Ghodsee.
“Davidson’s Challenge to the Non-Causalist”, (with Guido Löhrer), American Philosophical Quarterly(2016): 85-96.
“Epistemic Issues in the Free Will Debate: Can We Know When We Are Free?”, Philosophical Studies(2013): 363-380.
“Action Explanation and the Free Will Debate: How Incompatibilist Arguments Go Wrong.” Philosophical Issues (2012): 351-368.
“Taking Procrustes’ Axe to Professor Fisher’s Response,” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,Volume 17 (2011): 1009-10, co-authored with Donald Stanley.
“A Flawed Conception of Determinism in the Consequence Argument,” Analysis, Volume 71 (2010): 30-38. Prepublication copy here.
“The Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism Leads to Moral Paralysis,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 67:2 (2010)
“Evidence and Simplicity: Why We Should Reject Homeopathy,” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 16 (2010): 276-281.Prepublication copy here.
“Applying the Simplicity Principle to Homeopathy: What Remains?” Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, Volume 15:1 (2010).
“Teleology and Degrees of Freedom,” Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Volume 17:1 (2008): 123-144.
“A philosophical analysis of the evidence-based medicine debate,” BMC Health Services Research2003, 3:14, . Co-authored with Donald E. Stanley. Also translated into Chinese and published in Medicine and Philosophy 25:2 (2004): 21-24 and 25:3 (2004): 30-33.
“An Argument Against the Causal Theory of Action Explanation,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60:1(2000): 67-85.
“Connectionism and the Causal Theory of Action Explanation,” Philosophical Psychology, 11:4(1998): 511-531.
“Natural-Kind Terms and the Status of Folk Psychology,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 34:3(1997): 333-344.
“Deviant Causal Chains and the Irreducibility of Teleological Explanation,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78:2 (1997): 195-213.
“Okin on Feminism and Rawls,” The Philosophical Forum, 27 (1996): 321-332.
“Teleology and the Nature of Mental States,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 31 (1994): 63-72.
Book Chapters and Reviews
“Agency, Functions, and Teleology”, in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Agency, Luca Ferrero, editor. Routledge. (2022)
“Rationalizing Principles and Causal Explanation” (with Guido Löhrer), in Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches, Gunnar Schumann, editor. Routledge. (2019)
“The Causal Theory of Action and the Commitments of Common Sense Psychology,” in Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Non-causalism in the Philosophy of Action,Giuseppina D’Oro, ed. Palgrave Macmillan (2013)
“Pro-Attitudes,” in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh LaFollette, John Deigh, and Sarah Stroud, eds. Wiley-Blackwell. (2013)
“Teleology,” in Encyclopedia of the Mind. Sage Publications. (2013)
Review of Causing Human Actions: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action, Jesùs Aguilar and Andrei Buckareff, (Eds. ), Ethics 122:1(2011), pp. 168-174.
“Teleological Explanation,” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Action, Timothy O’Connor and Constantine Sandis, eds. Blackwell. (2010).
“Dementors, Horcruxes, and Immortality: The Soul in Harry Potter,” in Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles, William Irwin and Gregory Bassham, eds. Wiley (2010).
Review of Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi Mark Timmons, John Greco, Alfred R. Mele (eds.) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 16, 2008.
“Goal-Directed Action and Teleological Explanation,” in Causation and Explanation, Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry Silverstein, eds. MIT Press. (2007)
Review of A Most Unlikely God: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of God, by Barry Miller, Philosophy in Review, 18:2 (1998): 129-131.
Review of Logical Learning Theory: A Human Teleology and Its Empirical Support, by Joseph F. Rychlak, The Philosophical Quarterly, 46 (1996): 246-248.
Review of Subjectivity and Reduction by Barbara Hannan, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 15 (1995): 250-252.
Newspaper op-eds
“Professors do much more than teach and advise,” Bowdoin Orient, October 11, 2012, (co-authored with Barbara Weiden Boyd, Kristen Ghodsee, Page Herrlinger, John Holt, Steve Naculich, and Steve Perkinson.)
“Job shortage, fraught future for students,” Bowdoin Orient, November 18, 2011 (co-authored with Kristen Ghodsee).
“Judging who’s fit to be tied” (op-ed on gay marriage), Brunswick Times Record, June 6, 2008.
"Filibuster Tactic Smacks of Hypocrisy," (PDF) Op-ed piece in Portland Press Herald, April 25, 2005.
"Tax Cap Proponents' Suggestion Would Create Free-Loaders," Op-ed piece in Brunswick Times Record,October 8, 2004.
“Iraq not ‘War on Terror,’” Brunswick Times Record, March 26, 2004.
"Arguments Against Gay Marriage Don't Hold Up," Op-ed piece in Brunswick Times Record, February 27, 2004.
“Supports the Troops; Not Bush Decisions,” Op-ed piece in Brunswick Times Record, March 28, 2003.
“Rights not absolute,” Brunswick Times Record, October 31, 2001.
“There is no ban on school prayer,” Op-ed piece in Brunswick Times Record, September, 2001.
“Immorality of homosexuality based on Bible is challenged,” Op-ed piece in Brunswick Times Record, September 29, 2000.
“Homosexuality Is Not Immoral, Despite Scriptural Prohibition,” Op-ed piece in Portland Press Herald, June 27, 1997. Also reprinted in the Binghamton, NY Press & Sun Bulletin, August 14, 1997.