Articles

Articles

(2021) ‘Virtue Ethics and Particularism’, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. 95, Iss.1.

(2021) 'Ethics and Action Theory: An Unhappy Divorce', forthcoming in (ed.) R. Teichmann, Oxford Handbook of Anscombe

(Oxford University Press, 2021)

(2021) ‘Action Cubes and Traces’, forthcoming in (ed.) C. Bagnoli, forthcoming in Time in Action: The Temporal Structure of Rational Agency and Practical Thought (Routledge).

(2021) 'What Is it to Do Nothing?', forthcoming in (eds.) V. Rodriguez-Blanco & G. Pavlakos, Agency, Negligence and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press)

(2021) 'No Picnic: Cavell on Rule Descriptions’, Philosophical Investigations (online first).

(2020), ‘Reasoning to Action’, Philosophical Explorations, Vol. 23, Iss. 2.

(2020) '‘Modern Moral Philosophy Before and After Anscombe’, in (eds). S . Miguens & Mª D. García-Arnaldos, Reason, Reasoning, and Action (special issue of Enrahonar dedicated to G.E.M. Anscombe), 39-62.

(2019), 'Hegel on Purpose' (with Arto Laitinen), Hegel Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Dec), 444-463.

(2019) ‘Producing a Justification: Waismann on Ethics and Science’, in (eds.). D. Makovec & S. Shapiro, Friedrich Waismann: The Open Texture of Analytic Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan).

(2019) Are Reasons Like Shampoo?, in (ed. G. Schumann), Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches (Routledge).

(2019) Making Ourselves Understood: Wittgenstein and Moral Epistemology, in Wittgenstein-Studien Vol. 10, Iss.1, 242-260.

(2018) "Music to the ears of weaklings": Moral Hydraulics and the Unseating of Desire (with L.R. Chapman), Manuscrito, Vol. 41, No.4 (ed. D. Horst & S. Tenenbaum), 71-112.

(2018) Wittgenstein and Communication Technology - A conversation between Constantine Sandis and Richard Harper, Philosophical Investigations,Vol. 41, Iss. 2, 241-262.

(2018) Kant and Hegel on Purposive Action (with A. Laitinen & E. Mayr),Philosophical Explorations, Vol.21, Iss.1, 90-107; also published in (ed.) C. Sandis, Philosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe (London: Routledge).

(2017) The Doing & the Deed: Action in Normative Ethics, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 80 - Philosophy of Action (ed. A O’Hear), 105-126.

(2017) If an Artwork Could Speak: Aesthetic Understanding After Wittgenstein, in (ed.) G. Hagberg, Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding (London: Palgrave Macmillan).

(2016) An Honest Display of Fakery: Replicas and the Role of Museums, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 79; Philosophy and Museums: Essays on the Philosophy of Museums (eds. V. S. Harrison, A. Bergqvist, & G.Kemp) ,1-19.

(2016) Are We Superhuman or Are We Dancer?: Action and the Will in the Novels of Anthony Powell, Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Anthony Powell Conference (ed.) K.C. Marshall (AP Society Press).

(2016) Anscombe’s Intentions, Revue Klēsis, n. 35 – Lectures Contemporaines de Elisabeth Anscombe (ed. V. Aucouturier).

(2016) Period and Place: Collingwood and Wittgenstein on Understanding Others, Collingwood and British idealism Studies, Vol. 22, Iss.1, 171-98.

(2016) He Buttered the Toast While Baking A Fresh Loaf, Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series), Supplementary Volume on Michael Thompson's Life and Action (eds. M. Bianchin & I. Testa), Vol 5. No. 3.

(2015) Verbal Reports and "Real Reasons": Confabulation and Conflation, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Vol. 18., Iss. 2 (April), 267-280.

(2015) Motivated by the Gods: Compartmentalized Agency & Responsibility, in (eds.) A. Buckareff, C. Moya, & S.Rosell, Agency and Responsibility (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp.209-225.

(2015) One Fell Swoop: Small Red Book Historicism Before and After Davidson, Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol.9, Iss.3, 372-92.

(2015) Skin In The Game as a Heuristic for Acting Under Uncertainty (with Nassim Taleb), in (eds) G. DeMArtino, D. McCloskey, & N. Frampton, Handbook of Professional Economics Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

(2015) ”If Some People Looked Like Elephants and Others Like Cats”: Wittgenstein on Understanding Others and Forms of Life, Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Vol. 4, 131-153.

(2014) The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events (with Nassim N. Taleb): Review of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 1, Iss.1-2, 115-135 [open access].

(2014) The Skin in the Game as a Risk Filter (with N N Taleb), in (eds.) A. Bensoussan, D. Guégan, & C. S. Tapiero, Future Perspectives in Risk Models and Finance (Ham Heidelberg: Springer).

(2014) Culture, Heritage, and Ethics, in (ed. C. Sandis) Cultural Heritage Ethics (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers) [open access].

(2014) La pluralité des explications d’action, in (ed. R. Clot-Goudard), L’Explication de l’action: analyses contemporaines (Paris: Vrin).

(2013) Can Action Explanations Ever be Non-Factive? in (eds. B. Hooker, M. Little, & D. Backhurst), Thinking About Reasons: Themes From the Philosophy of Jonathan Dancy (Oxford University Press), 29-49.

(2013) Two Approaches to Animal Ethics and the Case of Great Apes (with Alessandro Blassime & Lisa Bortolotti), in (eds. K. Petrus & M. Wild), Animal Minds & Animal Ethics: Connecting Two Separate Fields (Transcript Verlag).

(2013) From Anti-Causalism to Causalism and Back: A Century of the Reasons/Causes Debate (with G. D'Oro), in (eds.) G. D'Oro & C. Sandis, Reasons and Causes : Causalism and Non-Causalism in the Philosophy of Action (Palgrave Macmillan).

(2012) The Objects of Action Explanation, Ratio, Vol.25, Iss.3, 236-344.

(2012) Understanding the Lion For Real, in (eds.) A. Marques & N. Venturinha, Knowledge, Language and Mind: Wittgenstein's Thought in Progress (Berlin: de Gruyter), 138-61.

(2012) The Public Expression of Penitence, in Teorema Vol. 31, No. 2, 141-152 (Special Issue on Bennett's The Apology Ritual); Response by Christopher Bennett (167-8).

(2011) A Just Medium: Empathy and Detachment in Historical Understanding, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, 179–200.

(2011) The Meaning of Hume’s Necessary Connexions, in (eds. T. Stoneham & K. Allen) Causation in Modern Philosophy 1500-1900 (Routledge).

(2010) The Experimental Turn and Ordinary Language, Essays in Philosophy,Vol 11. No 2. July , 181-96.

(2010) The Man Who Mistook his Handlung for a Tat: Hegel on Oedipus and Other Tragic Thebans, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, No. 62, 35-60.

(2010) Hegel and Contemporary Philosophy of Action (with Arto Laitinen), in (eds. A. Laitinen & C. Sandis), Hegel on Action, 1-21 (Palgrave Macmillan).

(2009) Hume and the Debate on Motivating Reasons, in (ed. Charles Pigden) Hume on Motivation and Virtue (Palgrave Macmillan), pp.142-154.

(2009) Hitchcock’s Conscious Use of Freud’s Unconscious, Europe’s Journal of Psychology Vo.5, No.3; September (open access) .

(2009) Contextual vs. Analytic History of Philosophy: A Study in Socrates (response to Warren and Shand’s commentaries on my ‘In Defence of Four Socratic Doctrines’, see further below), Think , Vol 8, Issue 22 (summer), pp. 101-105.

(2009) Gods and Mental States: The Causation of Action in Ancient Tragedy and Modern Philosophy of Mind in (ed. C. Sandis) New Essays on the Explanation of Action (Palgrave Macmillan, pp.358-385).

(2008) Dretske on the Causation of Behavior, Behavior and Philosophy, 36, 71-85. Reprinted in May 2009 annual.

(2008) How to Act Against Your Better Judgement, Philosophical Frontiers, Vol. 3.2, 111-124; reprinted in (eds. R. Corrigan & M.E. Farrell), Philosophical Frontiers: Essays and Emerging Thoughts (Progressive Frontiers Press 2009).

(2008) In Defence of Four Socratic Doctrines, Think, Spring/Summer 2008,pp. 85-98 (with responses by James Warren and John Shand).

(2008) Two Tales of One City: Cultural Understanding and the Elgin Marbles, Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2008,5-21.Commentaries by Ford. W. Bell, Neil G.W. Curtis, B.L. Murphy, and Anthony M. Snodgrass, followed by my responses.

(2006) The Explanation of Action in History, Essays in Philosophy, Vol 7, No. 2 (June), article 12.

(2006) When did the Killing Occur? : Donald Davidson on Action Individuation, Daimon Revista de Filosofía, No. 37, 179-186.

(2006) Dancy Cartwright: Particularism in the Philosophy of Science, Acta Analytica, Vol. 21, No. 2, Issue 39 (May).