Published Articles

1. Reasons and attitude intensity

Forthcoming in The Structure of Normativity: Exploring the Prospects of the Reason-First Approach (Routledge, edited by Singa Behrens & Benjamin Kiesewetter)

… gives a reasons-based explanation of the degree to which agents ought to hold attitudes and emotions.

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2. How to be reasonable about the meaning of ‘ought’

Philosophical Studies (2026)

… argues that the connection between deontic facts and reason facts has implications for natural language semantics, and gives a semantics for ‘ought’ and ‘must’ in terms of what agents have reason to do.

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3. Reasons for non-agents

Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2026)

… argues that there are normative reasons for toasters to toast and for alarms to alarm.

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… explores the relationship between the count and mass senses of ‘reason’, and gives a reasons-based analysis of the mass noun.

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4. ‘Reason’ en masse

Philosophical Perspectives (2025)

Work In Progress

 

1. A paper on reasons and defeat

with Josh Pearson

 

… argues that possessing a reason requires knowing you know it.

 

2. A paper on ‘Why phi?’ questions

with Daniel Fogal

 

… investigates the meaning of questions of the form ‘Why VP?’ (‘why dance?’, ‘why be optimistic?’), and explores the connections between answers to these questions and facts about reasons.