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“Making the ‘Hard’ Problem of Moral Normativity Easier”

In Errol Lord and Barry Maguire, Weighing Reasons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Contractualism, Root and Branch: A Review Essay” (on T. M. Scanlon’s The Difficulty of Tolerance)

            Philosophy & Public Affairs 34 (2006): 193-214. 116 (2006):  263-284.

“The Value of Autonomy and Autonomy of the Will”

            Ethics 116 (2006):  263-284.

“Respect and the Second-Person Standpoint”

    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (2004): 43-60.

“Desires, Reasons, and Causes” (symposium on Jonathan Dancy’s Practical Reality)

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (2003): 436-443.

“Moore, Normativity, and Intrinsic Value”

Ethics 113 (2003): 468-489.

“Normativity and Projection in Hobbes’s Leviathan”

The Philosophical Review 109 (2000): 313-347.

“Sympathetic Liberalism: Recent Work on Adam Smith”

Philosophy & Public Affairs 28 (1999): 139-164.

“Learning From Frankena: A Philosophical Remembrance”

Ethics 107 (1997): 685-705.

“Motive and Obligation in Hume’s Ethics”

Nous 27 (1993): 415-448.

“Internalism and Agency”

Philosophical Perspectives 6 (1992): 155-174.

“Toward Fin de siecle Ethics: Some Trends” (with Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton)

The Philosophical Review 101 (1992): 115-189.

“Autonomist Internalism and the Justification of Morals”

Nous 24 (1990): 257-268.

“Abolishing Morality”

Synthese 72 (1987): 71-89.

“Agent-Centered Restrictions from the Inside Out”

Philosophical Studies 50 (1986): 291-319.

“Kantian Practical Reason Defended”

Ethics 96 (1985): 89-99.

“Two Kinds of Respect”

Ethics 88 (1977): 36-49.

“A Defense of the Kantian Interpretation”

Ethics 86 (1976): 164-170.

“Nagel’s Argument for Altruism”

Philosophical Studies 25 (1974): 125-136.

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