PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHS
The Injustice of Punishment (New York: Routledge, 2017). Link to page
The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015). Link to page
Restorative Free Will: Back to the Biological Base (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2015). Link to page
Against Moral Responsibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). Link to page
The Natural Selection of Autonomy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998). Link to page
Freedom Without Responsibility (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). Link to page
TEXTBOOKS
Consider Ethics, 4th Ed. (New York: Longman Publishing, 2020). Previous editions in 2005, 2008, and 2011.
Congenial Debates on Controversial Questions (New York: Pearson Publishing, 2012).
Critical Thinking: Consider the Verdict, 6th Ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2012). Previous editions in 1988, 1993, 1998, 2001, and 2005.
Consider Philosophy (New York: Pearson Publishing, 2011).
Coffee and Philosophy (New York: Pearson, 2006). Translated into Chinese 2014, by Pearson.
ANTHOLOGIES
The Routledge Handbook of Punishment, with Farah Focquaert and Elizabeth Shaw (forthcoming).
You Decide: Current Debates in Criminal Justice (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009).
You Decide: Current Debates in Introductory Philosophy (New York: Longman Publishing, 2007).
You Decide: Current Debates in Ethics (New York: Longman Publishing, 2006).
You Decide: Current Debates in Contemporary Moral Problems (New York: Longman Publishing, 2006).
ARTICLES For links to full text for some articles, go to Articles Link
“Moral Responsibility is Morally Wrong,” Journal of Information Ethics, Volume 28, Number 1 (Spring 2019): 32-50.
“Beyond Moral Responsibility to a System that Works,” Neuroethics (December 2017).
“Beyond the Retributive System,” in Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society, ed. Elizabeth Shaw, Derk Pereboom, and Gregg Caruso (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
“Judicial System Resources: More Fun and Better Understanding in the Critical Thinking Classroom,” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 2014): 4-13.
“The Culture of Moral Responsibility,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 30, Number 1 (January 2014): 3-17.
“Free Will versus Determinism,” The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
“The Scientific Naturalist Case Against Moral Responsibility,” Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 41 (2014): 27-36.
“The Stubborn Illusion of Moral Responsibility,” in Gregg Caruso, ed., Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013)
With Robyn Repko, “Informed Consent: Good Medicine, Dangerous Side Effects,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics (2008).
“Sincere Apology without Moral Responsibility,” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 33, Number 3 (July 2007).
“Denying Responsibility without Making Excuses,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43 (2006): 81-89.
“Neglected Psychological Elements of Free Will,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 11 (June 2004): 111-118.
“Comparing Psychoanalytic and Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives on Control,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 11 (June 2004).
“Empirical Free Will and the Ethics of Moral Responsibility,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 37 (2004): 533-542.
“Chanelle, Sabrina and the Oboe,” in Thomas A. Shipka, ed., Philosophy: Paradox and Discovery, 5th Edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004). Reprinted in Gary E. Kessner, ed., Voices of Wisdom, 6th Edition (Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 2006).
“The Sad Truth: Optimism, Pessimism, and Pragmatism,” Ratio, Volume 16, No. 2 (June 2003): 189-197. Reprinted in David Benatar, ed., Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions, 2nd Edition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2010).
“A Metacompatibilist Account of Free Will: Making Compatibilists and Incompatibilists More Compatible,” Philosophical Studies, Volume 112, Number 2/3 (2003): 209-224.
“The Psychological Structure of Patient Autonomy,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Volume 11 (2002): 257-65.
“Patient Autonomy Naturalized,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 44, Number 4 (Autumn 2001).
"Deep Thinkers, Cognitive Misers, and Moral Responsibility," Analysis, Volume 59, Number 4 (October 1999).
"Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Control," in Bruce A. Thyer, editor, The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999).
"What Rationality Adds to Animal Morality," Biology & Philosophy, Volume 12, Number 3, July 1997.
"Moral Commitment Without Objectivity or Illusion," Biology & Philosophy, Volume 11, 1996.
"Authenticity Naturalized," Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 1995.
"Abortion and In Vitro Fertilization," Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 1995, pages 111-120.
"Pattern Proliferation in Teleological Behaviorism," Commentary on Howard Rachlin's "Self-Control: Beyond Commitment," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Spring 1995.
"Noncognitivist Moral Realism," Philosophia, Volume 24, Numbers 1-2, December 1994, pages 57-75.
With Brendan Minogue, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, and Larry Udell, "Individual Autonomy and the Double-Blind Controlled Experiment: The Case of Desperate Volunteers," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Volume 20, 1994, pages 43-55.
"Natural Autonomy and Alternative Possibilities," American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 1, January 1993, pages 73-83.
"Responsibility and the Self-Made Self," Analysis, Volume 53, January 1993, pages 45-51. Translated into Polish and published in Philosophy of Morality, by Fundacja ALETHEIA, 1997.
"In Defense of Freedom without Responsibility: Response to Critics," Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1992, pages 83-87.
"Moral Conversion Without Moral Realism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Number 3 (1992), pages 129-137.
"Advocacy and Fallacy," The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 6, Number 2, Winter 1991, pages 47-51.
"From Hemlock to Lethal Injection: The Case for Self- Execution," The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 1989, pages 53-58.
"Uneven Starts and Just Deserts," Analysis, Volume 49, Number 4, October 1989, pages 209-213. Reprinted in Reason and Responsibility, 9th edition, Joel Feinberg, editor (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995).
"Denying Responsibility: The Difference it Makes," Analysis, Volume 49, Number 1, January 1989, pages 44-47.
"Hard Determinism and the Principle of Vacuous Contrast," Metaphilosophy, Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1988, pages 65-69.
"Just and Nonjust Deserts," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 25, Number 2, Summer 1987, pages 229-238.
"The Virtues of Contemporary Emotivism," Erkenntnis, Volume 25, 1986, pages 61-75.
"Deliberating About the Inevitable," Analysis, Volume 45, Number 1, January 1985, pages 48-52.
"Determined Self-Intervention," New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 3, Number 1, January 1985, pages 19-26.
"Daniel Dennett on Responsibility," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 1984, pages 413-423.
"Purposes, Conditioning, and Skinner's Moral Theory," The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 14, Number 3, October 1984, pages 355-362.
"Determinism and Behaviorist Epistemology," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 4, Winter 1982, pages 513-532.
"Mentalistic Problems in Cicourel's Cognitive Sociology," The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 12, Number 2, July 1982, pages 177-199.
"Skinner's Two Stage Value Theory," Behaviorism, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 1982, pages 25-44.
"Carnap and Quine on the Distinction between External and Internal Questions," Philosophical Studies, Volume 33, Number 3, April 1978, pages 301-312.
"Chomsky, Wittgenstein, and the Behaviorist Perspective on Language," Behaviorism, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1977, pages 43-59.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Leo Zaibert’s Rethinking Punishment, in Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming.
“Review of George Sher’s Who Knew?” in Mind, 2014.
Review of Timely Topics (by George N. Schlesinger), Philosophia, Volume 26, Numbers 3-4, March 1998.
"Review of Walton's Slippery Slope Arguments," in Mind, 1993.
"Unravelling and Reweaving Free Will: A Review of The Non-Reality of Free Will," Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1993, pages 95-97.
"Review of On Becoming Responsible," Review of Metaphysics, Spring, 1992.
"Free Will Gone Out of Control," Behaviorism, Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 1988, pages 149-157.
"Critical Review of Aspects of Time," Philosophia, Volume 16, Number 1, April 1986, pages 111-114.