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“Causation, Liability, and Internalism,” Philosophy & Public Affairs (1986): 41-59

“The Present-Aim Theory of Rationality,” Ethics (1986): 746-759

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“Causation and Responsibility,” American Philosophical Quarterly (1988): 293-302

“Precis of The Limits of Morality,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1991): 897-901

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“The Limits of Well-Being,” Social Philosophy & Policy (1992): 169-189

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“The Unanimity Standard,” Journal of Social Philosophy (1993): 129-154

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“The Geometry of Desert,” The Lindley Lecture, University of Kansas, 2005

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“What’s Wrong with Speciesism?” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2016): 1-21

“Exploring Desert,” forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy