Essays

A Kantian Case for Animal Rights

Animal Law: Tier und Recht, edited by Julia Hänni, Margot Michel, Daniela Kühne. Dike Verlag, Zurich, 2012.

The Relational Nature of the Good

forthcoming in Oxford Studies on Metaethics, Volume 8, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature

forthcoming in Problems of Goodness: New Essays on Metaethics, edited by Bastian Reichardt.

The Normative Constitution of Agency

forthcoming in Rational and Social Agency: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Bratman, edited by Manuel Vargas and Gideon Yaffe. New York: Oxford University Press, and in German translation in a volume of essays on normativity edited by Rainer Forst, from Suhrkamp.

Valuing Our Humanity

Published in Spanish translation by Dulce María Grande in Signos Filosoficos, No. 26, July-December 2011.

Interacting with Animals: A Kantian Account

In The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Tom Beauchamp and R. G. Frey. Oxford, 2011.

Reflections on the Evolution of Morality

The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy 5 (2010): 1–29.

The Activity of Reason

Presidential Address of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2008. The Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Volume 83, No.2, November 2009; and in Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon, edited by R. J. Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Natural Motives and the Motive of Duty; Hume and Kant on Our Duties to Others

Contemporary Readings In Law and Social Justice 1(2), 2009.

Just Like All the Other Animals of the Earth

(Moral and Religious Attitudes towards Animals and Our Animal Nature in the Philosophies of Hume and Kant)
Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Summer, 2008.

Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals

in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, ed. by Grethe B. Peterson. Salt Lake City: Utah University Press, Volume 25, 2005, and at The Tanner Lectures web site via the link above.

Work in Progress

On Having a Good

Eventually forthcoming in Philosophy, the Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy

Moral Animals: A Three-Lecture Set (click for Abstract)

1. The Origin of the Good and Our Animal Nature

2. That Short But Imperious Word 'Ought': Human Nature and the Right

3. Human Beings and the Other Animals

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