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Welcome to a selection of my papers, some older than others.I intend to order them by age, but this may take some time!The final pair are somewhat off-piste but perhaps none the worse for that

How to tell if a commitment has a truth condition: Lewis's bombshell(1986) HERE Norms and Naturalism: Are GibbardŐs worries justified? HERE
Wittgnstein's Irrealism (1989) HERE Filling in Space(1991) HERE
McDowell's use of spatial metaphor, disjunctivitis etc. HERE Quasi Realism no Fictionalism HERE
More thoughts about fiction HERE Thick Concepts, the fact value distinction and Putnam; a conference address given in Mumbai, October 2015 HERE
Voltaire lecture to British Humanists Association HERE Writings against expressivism by Peacocke and Kerstein HERE
Success Semantics (Ramsey) HERE Further thoughts about causation and agency HERE
Conference Paper on Representation and Pragmatism HERE Paper on Egan and A Prioricity HERE
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: How to do metathetics HERE The Social Nature of Expression HERE
Religion and Respect HERE Putnam, Wittgenstein and Religious Language HERE
Brandom and Wittgenstein HERE Rorty, Dewey, Price and Semantic Minimalism HERE
Williams, Smith and the peculiar piacular HERE Sharon Street on independent moral truth as such HERE
Real Ethics: the Full Story HERE Parfit's tiltings at expressivism HERE
Does pragmatism give a generalized expressivism? HERE Brad Armour-Garb on truth and goodness HERE
A paper on the issue of Assisted Dying for the UK parliament HERE And another on Philip LarkinŐs poem, An Arundel Tomb HERE