Publications
Books
Contract is agreed with Oxford University Press for The Ethics of Lying, a new volume in their Ethics in Context series. Nothing has been decided yet as to the cover, but I would love to use this painting by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy (c. 1760), currently in The National Gallery in London, as the book's cover image. The Greek horse in the oil painting bears the (anachronistic) Latin inscription "PALADI VOTUM,” meaning "An offering to Pallas” (Pallas being another name for Athena). This is a lie, of course. In the center of the scene, Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, who prophesied disaster if the Trojans took the Greek horse inside the city walls, is being arrested.
Contract is agreed for Kant on Lies in the Elements in The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant series with Cambridge University Press .
Book chapters
Contract is nearing agreement with Oxford University Press for my chapter, provisionally entitled “Maria von Herbert and Kant on Concealing the Truth,” for an edited volume, Kant and Maria von Herbert: Friendship, Trust, and the Meaning of Life. Sources and Critical Explorations, edited by Bernhard Ritter and Jens Timmermann. The cover design has not been decided yet for this volume; Bernhard Ritter continues to search for missing second portrait of Maria von Herbert (I have added the first portrait of her).
“Murderer at the Switch: Thomson, Kant, and The Trolley Problem,” in Death and Anti-Death, Volume 19: One Year After Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020), edited Charles Tandy (Ria University Press, 2021), 153-187
“Classical Philosophical Approaches to Lying and Deception,” in The Oxford Handbook of Lying, edited by Jörg Meibauer (Oxford University Press, 2018), 13-31;
“Contemporary Approaches to the Philosophy of Lying,” in The Oxford Handbook of Lying, 32-55
“Contemporary Approaches to the Philosophy of Lying,” in The Oxford Handbook of Lying, 32-55
“Secrets vs. Lies: Is There a Moral Asymmetry?,” in Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics, edited by Andreas Stokke and Eliot Michaelson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 161-182
“Abortion and the Right not to be Pregnant,” in Philosophy and Political Engagement, edited by Allyn Fives and Keith Breen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 57-77
“Lying for the Sake of the Truth: The Ethics of Deceptive Journalism,” in Contemporary Media Ethics, edited by Mitchell Land, Koji Fuse, and Bill W. Hornaday (Marquette Books, 2014), 219-237
“MacIntyre and the Emotivists,” in What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century? Essays in Honor of Alasdair MacIntyre, ed. Fran O’Rourke (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), 167-201
“The Truth about Kant on Lies,” in The Philosophy of Deception, edited by Clancy Martin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 201-224
“Lying,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd ed., Macmillan 2006), 618-619
“Getting Your Sources Right: What Aristotle Didn’t Say,” in Researching and Applying Metaphor, edited by Lynne Cameron and Graham Low (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 69-80 (e-book cover). “Getting Your Sources Right: What Aristotle Didn't Say,” in Researching and Applying Metaphor, edited by Lynne Cameron and Graham Low, Chinese edition, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2001.
“Truth and Metaphor: A Defense of Shelley,” in Metaphor and Rational Discourse, edited by Bernard Debatin, Timothy R. Jackson, and Daniel Steuer (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997), 137-46
Articles
“The Definition of Lying,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming)
“The Definition of Deception,” (with Don Fallis), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming)
“Why Deception is Worse than Coercion,” Truth and Lies in Politics, special issue of cultura & psyché: Journal of Cultural Psychology (forthcoming)
“Novels Never Lie,” British Journal of Aesthetics 59 (2019): 323-338
“The Santa Claus Lie,” The Institute of Art and Ideas, IAI News, December 19, 2018
Re-posted on The Daily Nous here.
Re-posted on The Daily Nous here.
“Do Embryos Have a Right to Life?,” subsequently entitled “When Do We Become Persons?,” The Institute of Art and Ideas, IAI News (April 2, 2019). Re-posted on Reddit here.
“Innocent Burdens,” Washington and Lee Law Review 71 (2014): 1429-1469
“Spinoza, Bad Faith, and Lying: A reply to John W. Bauer,” Wassard Elea Rivista 1 (2013): 115-121
“Kant on Lying as a Crime Against Humanity,” Parmenideum IV, No. 2 (2012), 63-88
“Kant on Keeping A Secret,” in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture, special issue, Perpetual Kant: Peace, Politics, and our Enlightened Heritage 44 (2009), 21-36
“Two Definitions of Lying,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2008), 211-230
“A Definition of Deceiving,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (2007), 181-194
“The Morality of On Liberty,” Studies in the History of Ethics - Symposium on Mill's Ethics (2007)
“Kant and the Perfect Duty to Others Not to Lie,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (2006), 653-685
“Kant and Maria von Herbert: Reticence vs. Deception,” Philosophy 81 (2006), 417-444
“The Good, the Bad, and the Obligatory,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 40 (2006), 59-71
"Emotivism and Internalism: Ayer and Stevenson,” Studies in the History of Ethics (2005)
“Kant on Lies, Candour and Reticence,” Kantian Review 7 (2003), 102-133
“Kant on Lies,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Harvard/MIT Graduate Conference (Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT 2000), edited by Ólafur Páll Jónsson, 25-40
Encyclopedia Entries
“Louis D. Brandeis,” 135-138
“Fraud,” 612-615
“Locke, John,” 927-929
The Sage Encyclopedia of World Poverty, 2nd. edition, edited by Mehmet Odekon (Sage, 2015)
“Fraud,” 612-615
“Locke, John,” 927-929
The Sage Encyclopedia of World Poverty, 2nd. edition, edited by Mehmet Odekon (Sage, 2015)
“Deception, Characteristics of” (246-250)
“Deception and Technology” (255-260)
“History of Deception: 1600 to 1700” (456-450)
“History of Deception: 1800 to 1900” (464-468)
“History of Deception: 1900 to 1950” (468-472)
“History of Deception: 1950 to the Present” (472-477)
“Lying, Accusations of” (608-611)
“Morals and Ethics” (676-682)
“Plato” (768-770)
“Saint Augustine” (827-829)
“Transparent Liars” (896-898)
The Encyclopedia of Deception, edited by Timothy R. Levine (Sage, 2014)
“Deception and Technology” (255-260)
“History of Deception: 1600 to 1700” (456-450)
“History of Deception: 1800 to 1900” (464-468)
“History of Deception: 1900 to 1950” (468-472)
“History of Deception: 1950 to the Present” (472-477)
“Lying, Accusations of” (608-611)
“Morals and Ethics” (676-682)
“Plato” (768-770)
“Saint Augustine” (827-829)
“Transparent Liars” (896-898)
The Encyclopedia of Deception, edited by Timothy R. Levine (Sage, 2014)
“Fair Lending Practices,” in the Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity, edited Linwood H. Cousins (Sage, 2014), 508-512
“Learning Objects,” in The Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, edited by Michael J. Spector (Sage, 2014), 475-477
Book reviews
Review of Speech and Morality: On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May 30, 2016)
Review of Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy, Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (2014), 245-248
Review of Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating, Philosophy in Review (2012)
Review of Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (January 13, 2011)
Review of Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (2007), 385-390
Review of Rights and Reasons, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 13 (2005), 285-289
“Bureaucracy Under Attack” (Review of Dismantling Democratic States), The Review of Politics 67 (2005), 153-155
“Descartes Our Contemporary” (Review of Descartes: An Intellectual Biography and Descartes and His Contemporaries), The European Legacy 4 (1999), 98-101
Review of Ethics and Practical Reason, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7 (1999), 119-120
Review of The Poetics of Mind, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1996), 202-203
Review of The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy, The Berkeley Newsletter 14 (1996), 15-17
Review of Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophers, History of European Ideas 21 (1995), 584-585
“Was Flann O'Brien a Post-modernist?” (Review of Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist), ROPES: Review of Postgraduate Studies 4 (1995), 56-57
Dissertation: Motivational Internalism and the Authority of Morality: A Study in the History of Metaethics (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011)