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Pricean Ignorance

British Journal for the History of Philosophy (22 April 2024). DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2024.2334763.
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How Can ‘Evidence’ be Normative?

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, ed. Maria Lasonen-Aarnio and Clayton Littlejohn (Routledge, 2023): 74–90.
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Ethical Naturalism, Non-Naturalism, and In-Between

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism, ed. Paul Bloomfield and David Copp (Oxford University Press, 2023): 131–155.
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Hierocles’ Concentric Circles

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 62, ed. Victor Caston (Oxford University Press, 2023): 293–332.
© 2023 Ralph Wedgwood
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The Reasons Aggregation Theorem

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol. 12, ed. Mark Timmons (Oxford University Press, 2022): 127–148.
© 2022 Ralph Wedgwood
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Doxastic Rationality

Propositional and Doxastic Justification: New Essays on their Nature and Significance, ed. Luis Oliveria and Paul Silva Jr (Routledge, 2022): 219–240.
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Practical and Theorectical Rationality

The Handbook of Rationality, ed. Markus Knauf and Wolfgang Spohn (MIT Press, 2021): Chap. 2.2, 137–45.
© 2021 MIT Press
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The Internalist Virtue Theory of Knowledge

Synthese 197, no. 12, Special Issue: The Epistemology of Ernest Sosa (2020): 5357–5378.
© 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-1707-x

Moral Disagreement and Inexcusable Irrationality

American Philosophical Quarterly 56, no. 1 (2019): 97–108.
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A Probabilistic Epistemology of Perceptual Belief

Philosophical Issues 28, Philosophy of Logic and Inferential Reasoning (2018): 374–398.
© 2018 Wiley Periodicals
DOI: 10.1111/phis.12130

The Unity of Normativity

in The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity , ed. Daniel Star (Oxford University Press, 2018): 23–45.
© 2018 Ralph Wedgwood
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Plato’s Theory of Knowledge

in Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin , ed. David O. Brink, Susan Sauvé Meyer, and Christopher Shields (Oxford University Press, 2018): 33–56.
© 2018 Ralph Wedgwood
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198817277.003.0003

Epistemic Teleology: Synchronic and Diachronic

in Epistemic Consequentialism, ed. Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij and Jeffrey Dunn (Oxford University Press, 2018): 85–112.
© 2018 Ralph Wedgwood
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The Coherence of Thrasymachus

in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, ed. Victor Caston, Vol. 53 (Oxford University Press, 2017): 33–63.
© 2017 Ralph Wedgwood
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Must rational intentions maximize utility?

Philosophical Explorations 20, sup. 2 (2017): 73–92.
© 2017 Informa UK Ltd, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2017.1356352

The Predicament of Choice

in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau, Vol. 12 (Oxford University Press, 2017): 294–313.
© 2017 Ralph Wedgwood
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Objective and Subjective ‘Ought’

Deontic Modality, ed. Nate Charlow and Matthew Chrisman (Oxford University Press, 2016): 142–68.
© 2016 Ralph Wedgwood
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Is Civil Marriage Illiberal?

After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships, ed. Elizabeth Brake (Oxford University Press, 2016): 29–50.
© 2016 Oxford University Press
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Two Grades of Non-Consequentialism

Criminal Law and Philosophy, 10, no. 4 (2016): 795–814.)
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
DOI: 10.1007/s11572-014-9351-0

The Pitfalls of ‘Reasons’

Philosophical Issues 25, Normativity (2015): 123–143.
© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/phis.12054

An Inferentialist Conception of the A Priori

in Oxford Studies in Epistemology, vol. 5, ed. Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (Oxford University Press, 2015): 295–314.
© 2015 Ralph Wedgwood
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Rationality as a Virtue

Analytic Philosophy 55, no. 4 (December 2014): 319–338.
© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/phib.12055

Moral Disagreement among Philosophers

in Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution, ed. Michael Bergmann and Patrick Kain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 23-39.
© 2014 Ralph Wedgwood
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The Right Thing to Believe?

in The Aim of Belief, ed. Timothy Chan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013): 123-139.
© 2013 Ralph Wedgwood
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The Weight of Moral Reasons

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, ed. Mark Timmons, vol. 3 (2013): 35-58.
© 2013 Ralph Wedgwood
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Akrasia and Uncertainty

Organon F, 20, no. 4, ed. Julian Fink (2013): 483–505.
© 2013 Ralph Wedgwood
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Rational ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’

Philosophical Issues 23 (2013): 70–92.
© 2013 Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/phis.12004

A Priori Bootstrapping

in The A Priori in Philosophy, ed. Albert Casullo and Joshua C. Thurow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013): 226-246.
© 2013 Ralph Wedgwood
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695331.003.0011

Doxastic Correctness

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. 87 (2013): 38–54.
© 2013 The Aristotelian Society
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8349.2013.00219.x

Gandalf’s Solution to the Newcomb Problem

Synthese 190, no. 14 (2013): 2643–2675.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9900-1

Outright Belief

dialectica 66, no. 3, Special Issue on Belief and Degrees of Belief, ed. Philip Ebert and Martin Smith (2012): 309–329.
© 2012 Ralph Wedgwood
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2012.01305.x

Justified Inference

Synthese 189, no. 2 (2012): 273-295.
© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-0012-8

Defending Double Effect

Ratio 24, Special Issue on Deontological Ethics, ed. Brad Hooker (December 2011): 384-401.
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00508.x

Instrumental Rationality

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau, vol. 6 (2011): 280–309.
© 2011 Ralph Wedgwood
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Primitively Rational Belief-Forming Processes

in Reasons for Belief, ed. Andrew Reisner and Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 180–200.
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The Moral Evil Demons

in Disagreement, ed. Richard Feldman and Ted Warfield (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010): 216-246
© 2010 Ralph Wedgwood
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The ‘Good’ and the ‘Right’ Revisited

Philosophical Perspectives 23 (2009): 499-519.
© 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1520-8583.2009.00181.x

Intrinsic Values and Reasons for Action

Philosophical Issues 19 (2009): 342-363.
© 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-6077.2009.00172.x

Diotima’s Eudaemonism: Intrinsic Value and Rational Motivation in Plato’s Symposium

Phronesis 54 (2009): 297-325.
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
DOI: 10.1163/003188609X12486562883093

The Normativity of the Intentional

in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Mind, ed. Brian P. McLaughlin and Ansgar Beckermann (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009): 421-36.
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Contextualism about Justified Belief

The Philosophers’ Imprint, vol. 8, no. 9 (September 2008): 1-20.
© Ralph Wedgwood
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Butler on Virtue, Self-Interest and Human Nature

in Morality and Self-Interest, ed. Paul Bloomfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007): 177-204.
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Normativism Defended

Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Mind, ed. Brian P. McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen (Blackwell, 2007): 85-101.
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The Normative Force of Reasoning

Noûs 40, no. 4 (2006): 660-686.
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2006.00628.x

The Meaning of ‘Ought’

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, ed. Russ Shafer-Landau, vol. 1 (2006): 127-160
© 2011 Ralph Wedgwood
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Choosing Rationally and Choosing Correctly

in Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, ed. Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet (Oxford UP, 2003): 201-229
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The Aim of Belief

Philosophical Perspectives 16 (2002): 267-297
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Internalism Explained

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2002): 349-369
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2002.tb00206.x

Practical Reason and Desire

Conceptual Role Semantics for Moral Terms

The Price of Non-Reductive Physicalism

The Price of Non-Reductive Moral Realism

The Fundamental Argument for Same-Sex Marriage

The Essence of Response-Dependence

Theories of Content and Theories of Motivation

Can our reasons determine what it is rational for us to believe?

Comments on Mark Schroeder, Reasons First. Philosophical Studies (2023).
© 2023 Ralph Wedgwood, under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-023-02034-1

Review of Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defense of the Marriage-Free State, by Clare Chambers

Review of Fifteen Sermons and Other Writings on Ethics, by Joseph Butler, ed. David McNaughton

Journal of the History of Philosophy 56, no. 3 (2018):563–564.
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DOI: 10.1353/hph.2018.0061

Review of Being Realistic about Reasons, by T. M. Scanlon

Review of Taking Morality Seriously: A Defence of Robust Realism, by David Enoch

Review of Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012)
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Review of The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations, by Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar and Adrian Haddock

Scanlon on Double Effect

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83, no. 2 (2011): 464-472.
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00517.x

The Nature of Normativity: Précis

Philosophical Studies, Online First (8 April 2010).
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-010-9553-9

The Nature of Normativity: Reply to Holton, Railton, and Lenman

Philosophical Studies, Online First (8 April 2010).
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-010-9554-8

Schroeder on Expressivism: For — Or Against?

Review of Kieran Setiya, Reasons without Rationalism

Christopher Peacocke’s The Realm of Reason

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74, no. 3 (May 2007), 776-791.
© 2007 International Phenomenological Society
DOI: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00055.x

Railton on Normativity

(Comments on Peter Railton’s Fact, Values, and Norms, Part III), Philosophical Studies 126, no. 3 (December 2005), 463-479.
© 2005 Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-005-2317-2

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