Research

 
Peer Reviewed:

• “Extending Compatibilism: Control, Responsibility, and Blame”, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, 13/3 (2007): 209-230.

Drafts:

• “Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency”, co-authored paper with Matt Bedke (British Columbia) & Shaun Nichols (Arizona). [Abstract.]

Recent & Forthcoming Presentations:

• “Aesthetic Judgments: The Agency View”, co-authored paper with Joshua J. Johnston, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Grove, California, April 11-13, 2012 (refereed).
• “Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency”, co-authored paper with Matthew Bedke (British Columbia) & Shaun Nichols (Arizona), New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), New Orleans, November 5, 2011 (refereed).
• “Phenomenal Abilities: Incompatibilism and the Experience of Agency”, co-authored paper with Matthew Bedke (British Columbia) & Shaun Nichols (Arizona), Department Workshop, Cornell University, September 15, 2011.
• Comment on Eric L. Chwang, “Freedom from Autonomy”, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego, April 23, 2011 (invited)
• “Why the Revised Manipulation Argument Fails”, 47th Western Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting, University of Calgary, October 29, 2010 (refereed)
• “Our Experience as Agents, and Why It’s Mistaken”, Columbia College, Vancouver, April 5, 2010 (invited)
• Comment on Zachary J. Goldberg, “Van Inwagen’s Two Failed Arguments for the Belief in Freedom”, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 31, 2010 (invited)
• “How Our Experience as Agents is Mistaken if Determinism is True”, 61st annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove, Oregon, October 23, 2009 (refereed)
• Comment on Charles Vachapittack, “Negotiating Influences”, 61st annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove, Oregon, October 24, 2009

Other Papers In (Various Stages Of) Preparation:

• “A Dual-Content View of the Phenomenal Content of Agentive Experiences”
• “The Etiology of Incompatibilist Content in Agentive Experiences”
• “Aesthetic Judgments: The Agency View”, with Joshua J. Johnston.
• “Why the Revised Manipulation Argument Fails”
• “Degrees of Moral Responsibility”
• “Absences and Late Preemption: A Counterfactual Approach to Causation”
• “The Transitivity of Causation, in Equations and Graphs”
• “Three Options for Absence Causation”
• “Going Indexical: A Reply to the Knowledge Argument?”