mark schroeder - papers
(Note: A few of these papers are not published, and a couple fall under more than one category.)
papers about reasons and rationality
general papers about reasons
'Reasons and Agent-Neutrality.' Philosophical Studies 135(2): 279-306. August 2007.
'Having Reasons.' Philosophical Studies 139(1): 57-71. April 2008.
'The Negative Reason Existential Fallacy.' Unpublished manuscript of 5/24/07.
'The Ubiquity of State-Given Reasons.' First posted 6/23/10.
'What Makes Reasons Sufficient?' First posted 8/2/10.
the humean theory of reasons
'The Humean Theory of Reasons.' Oxford Studies in Metaethics 2: 195-219. April 2007.
'Weighting for a Plausible Humean Theory of Reasons.' Noûs 41(1): 138-160. March 2007.
'Reasons for Action: Internal vs External.' With Stephen Finlay. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. September 2008.
instrumental rationality
[close]'The Scope of Instrumental Reason.' Philosophical Perspectives 18 (Ethics) 2004: 337-364. November 2004.
'Instrumental Mythology.' (177k .pdf file - 14 pages) Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, symposium 1. December 2005.
'Means-End Coherence, Stringency, and Subjective Reasons.' Philosophical Studies 143(2): 223-248. March 2009. Reviewed in Philosopher's Digest.
papers about expressivism
general papers about expressivism
'Expression for Expressivists.' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76(1): 86-116. January 2008.
'How Not to Avoid Wishful Thinking.' In Michael Brady, ed., New Waves in Metaethics, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 126-140. January 2011.
'Does Expressivism Have Subjectivist Consequences?' First posted 8/2/2010.
papers about the frege-geach problem
'How Expressivists Can and Should Solve their Problem with Negation.' Noûs 42(4): 573-599. November 2008. Selected for inclusion in the 2008 Philosopher's Annual. Winner of the 2010 APA Article Prize for best paper published in philosophy in 2008 or 2009.
'What is the Frege-Geach Problem?' Philosophy Compass 3/4: 703-720. June 2008.
'Tempered Expressivism.' Provisionally forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Draft of 12/1/2011.
'Skorupski on Being For.' First posted 3/22/2012.
'Higher-Order Attitudes, Frege's Abyss, and the Truth in Propositions.' Forthccoming in a volume to be edited by Robert Johnson and Michael Smith. First posted 3/24/2012.
papers about expressivism and/about truth
[close]'The Moral Truth.' Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook to Truth, edited by Michael Glanzburg.
'Expressivist Truth'. Unpublished manuscript from 2008.
'How to Be an Expressivist About Truth.' In Nikolaj Jang Pederson and Cory Wright, eds., New Waves in Truth, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 282-298. September 2010.
'Hard Cases for Combining Expressivism and Deflationist Truth: Conditionals and Epistemic Modals.' Forthcoming in a volume of essays on deflationism and pragmatism, to be edited by Michael Williams and Steven Gross. First posted 8/2/10.
other papers about moral semantics
[close]'Semantics, Moral.' Forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette.
'Philosophy of Language for Metaethics.' Forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, edited by Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell.
'Finagling Frege.' Unpublished manuscript from 5/24/07.
'Hybrid Expressivism: Virtues and Vices.' Ethics 119(2): 257-309. January 2009. Selected for inclusion in the 2009 Philosopher's Annual.
'Ought, Agents, and Actions.' Philosophical Review 120(1): 1-41. January 2011.
other philosophy of language
[close]'Reversibility or Disagreement.' With Jake Ross. Revised draft posted 3/15/2012. This paper supercedes our earlier manuscript, 'Reflections on Epistemic Modals'.
'Two Roles for Propositions: Cause for Divorce?' Forthcoming in Noûs. First posted 9/6/09.
'Hard Cases for Combining Expressivism and Deflationist Truth: Conditionals and Epistemic Modals.' Forthcoming in a volume of essays on deflationism and pragmatism, to be edited by Michael Williams and Steven Gross. First posted 8/2/10.
'Attitudes and Epistemics.' Unpublished manuscript. First posted 7/11/2011.
'Is Semantics Formal?' Unpublished paper based on talk given Arche workshop in May 2011. First posted 7/18/2011.
papers about value theory
[close]'Value Theory.' Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. February 2008.
'Not So Promising After All: Evaluator-Relative Teleology and Common-Sense Morality.' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87(3): 348-356. September 2006.
'Teleology, Agent-Relative Value, and 'Good'.' Ethics 117(2): 265-295. January 2007.
'Value and the Right Kind of Reason.' Oxford Studies in Metaethics 5: 25-55, September 2010.
'Buck-Passers' Negative Thesis.' Philosophical Explorations 12(3): 341-347, July 2009.
papers about moral metaphysics
[close]'Realism and Reduction: The Quest for Robustness.'The Philosophers' Imprint 5(1): www.philosophersimprint.org/005001/. February 2005.
'Cudworth and Normative Explanations.' Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, vol. 1, no. 3. October 2005.
'Huemer's Clarkeanism.' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78(1): 197-204. January 2009.
'Supervenience Arguments Under Relaxed Assumptions.' With Johannes Schmitt. Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Updated 2/28/10.
'What Matters About Metaethics?' Forthcoming in Peter Singer, editor, Does Anything Matter? Responses to Parfit. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press. First posted 7/18/11.
papers about moral particularism
[close]'Cudworth and Normative Explanations.' Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, vol. 1, no. 3. October 2005.
'A Matter of Principle.' Noûs 43(3): 568-580, September 2009.
'Holism, Weight, and Undercutting.' Forthcoming in Noûs.
papers about epistemology
general papers about epistemology
'Having Reasons.' Philosophical Studies 139(1): 57-71. April 2008.
'How Does the Good Appear to Us?' Social Theory and Practice 34(1): 119-130. January 2008. Published with a reply by Sergio Tenenbaum.
'What Does it Take to 'Have' a Reason?' In Andrew Reisner and Asbjorn Steglich-Peterson, Reasons for Belief. New York: Cambridge University Press, 201-222. June 2011.
'Knowledge is Belief for Sufficient (Objective and Subjective) Reason.' First posted 6/23/10.
papers about pragmatic encroachment
[close]'Stakes, Withholding, and Pragmatic Encroachment on Knowledge.' Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. Revised draft posted 6/23/10.
'The Ubiquity of State-Given Reasons.' First posted 6/23/10.
'Belief, Credence, and Pragmatic Encroachment.' With Jake Ross. Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. First posted 7/11/2011.
papers about the history of ethics
[close]'The Hypothetical Imperative?' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83(3): 357-372. September 2005.
'Cudworth and Normative Explanations.' Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, vol. 1, no. 3. October 2005.
'Hypothetical Imperatives: Scope and Jurisdiction.' Forthcoming in a volume of essays for Thomas E. Hill, Jr., to be edited by Michael Smith and Robert Johnson. First posted March 2012.