Publications

Here is a list of most of my papers, organized by topic.

And some unrelated photos.

empathy and mindreading

Empathy and Emotion Regulation. Philosophical Topics, 47:2, 149-163 (2019).

Empathy. T. Polger (Ed.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge (2019). doi: 10.4324/9780415249126-L154-1

What can we learn from taking another’s perspective? D. Matravers & A. Waldoff (Eds.) Empathy: Between Einfühlung and Attunement. London: Routledge, 74-90 (2018).

Self-Simulation and Empathy. T. Schramme & N. Roughley (Eds.) Forms of Fellow Feeling: Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 109-32 (2018).

Introduction. In: H. Maibom (Ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy. London: Routledge (2017).

Affective Empathy. In: H. Maibom (Ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy. London: Routledge (2017).

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Failure to Forecast and the Empathic Imagination. A. Kind & P. Kung (Eds.) Knowledge Through Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 185-206 (2016).

(Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Empathy. H. Maibom (Ed.) Empathy and Morality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1-40 (2014).

Without Fellow Feeling. In T. Schramme (Ed.): Being Immoral: Psychopaths and Moral Indifference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 91-114 (2014).

Folk Psychology. In: H. Pashler (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Mind. SAGE Publications (2013). 

Theory Theory. In: B. Kaldis (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. SAGE Publications (2013).

The Many Faces of Empathy and Their Relation to Prosocial Action and Aggression Inhibition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (WIRE), 3, 253-63 (2012). 

Imagining Others. Atelier de l’Ethique, 5:1, 34-49 (2010). 

Feeling for Others: Empathy, Sympathy, and Morality. Inquiry, 52, 483-99 (2009). 

In Defence of (Model) Theory Theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16, 360-78 (2009). 

Social Systems. Philosophical Psychology, 20, 557-78 (2007).

The Presence of Others. Philosophical Studies, 132, 161-90 (2007).  

The Mindreader and the Scientist. Mind & Language,18, 296-315 (2003).

Tacit Knowledge & Folk Psychology. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy,35, 95-114 (2001).           

psychopathy, morality, and responsibility

Moral Understanding and Empathy in Psychopaths. J. Doris & M. Vargas (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 838-62 (2022).

What Can Philosophers Learn From Psychopathy? Special issue of European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 14, 63-78 (2018). 

Psychopathy: Morally incapacitated persons. In: T. Schramme & S. Edwards (Eds.) Handbook of Concepts in the Philosophy of Medicine, New York: Springer, 1109-29 (2017). 

To Treat a Psychopath. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics: Special issue on Psychopathy, Neurotechnologies, and Neuroethics (ed. Fabrice Jotterand), 35, 31-42 (2014).

Knowing What We Are Doing. D. Jacobson & J. D’Arms (Eds.) The Science of Ethics: Moral Psychology and Human Agency. New York: Oxford University Press, 108-22 (2014). 

Values, Sanity, and Responsibility. In D. Shoemaker (Ed.): Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press, 263-83 (2013).

Psychopathy. In: H. LaFollette (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2013).

The Many Faces of Empathy and Their Relation to Prosocial Action and Aggression Inhibition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (WIRE), 3, 253-63 (2012).

Rationalism, Emotivism, and the Psychopath. L. Malatesti & J. McMillan: (Eds.) Responsibility and Psychopathy: Interfacing Law, Psychiatry and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 305-25 (2010).

Sans Goût: L’Art Et Le Psychopathe.La Nouvelle Revue Française d'Esthétique, 6: 151-163 (co-authored with James Harold) (2010).

What Experimental Evidence Shows Us About the Role of Emotions in Moral Judgment. Philosophy Compass, 5/11, 999-1012 (2010).

The Mad, the Bad, and the Psychopath. Neuroethics, 1, 167-84 (2008).

The Will to Conform. Comment on McGeer. W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.)Moral Psychology, Volume 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 565-72 (2008).

Moral Unreason: The Case of Psychopathy. Mind & Language, 20, 237-57 (2005).

Shame, emotions, Happiness, and politics

Don’t Worry, Be Happy? Synthese, 200:67 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03597-y

Shame and Trauma. In: A. Fussi, R. Rodogno, and T. Noah (Eds.) The Moral Psychology of Shame. New York: Rowman & Littlefield (forthcoming).

Liberty and Security in the Nuclear Age. K. Iversen & E.W. Perry (Eds.) Doom With a View. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishers, 274-90 (2020).

On the Distinction Between Shame and Guilt. B. Cokelet & C. Maley (Eds.) The Moral Psychology of Guilt. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 37-51 (2019)

Shame and Necessity Redux. K. Bauer, S. Varga, and C. Mieth: (Eds.) Here I Stand. Dimensions of Practical Necessity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 195-211 (2017).

The Descent of Shame. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXXX, 566-94 (2010).

Patriotic Virtue. Political Studies 57, 639-59 (co-authored with Fred Bennett) (2008).

Thoughts of Rivals, Thoughts of Failure: How Emotions Shape Our Thoughts. T. Botz-Bornstein (Ed.) Culture, Nature, Memes: Dynamic Cognitive Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 101-116 (2008).