Essays in Circulation

As of 29 November 2011.

Publications

  1. Sentences That Can't Be Said, or: How to Semanticize with a Hammer, in Southwest Philosophy Review 22.1 (January 2006). 185–198.

  2. Can Don Quixote Tilt at William James? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pierre Menard, in Zetesis (2002).

Papers Presented

  1. Can Anyone Ever Consent to the State? 2 October 2009. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2009 conference in Orange Beach, Alabama.

  2. How I Got the Blue: Cognitive Complexity, Qualitative Simplicity, and the Missing Shade of Blue in Hume’s Skeptical Empiricism, 6 October 2007. Presented for the 59th Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference in Portland, Oregon.

  3. Vegetarianism and Norms on the Margin, 21 September 2007. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2007 conference in Orange Beach, Alabama.

  4. The Spring of Virtue: Psychological Egoism and Francis Hutcheson's Doctrine of the Moral Sense, 20 October 2006. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2006 conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

  5. Intuition-Pumping for Fun and Profit, 25 February 2006. Presented for the 30th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference, in Memphis, Tennessee.

  6. Sentences That Can't Be Said: or, How to Semanticize with a Hammer, 13 November 2005. Presented to the Southwestern Philosophical Society at its Fall 2005 conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

  7. Intuition-Pumping for Fun and Profit, 21 October 2005. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2005 conference in Montevallo, Alabama.

  8. How I Got the Blue: Cognitive Complexity, Epistemic Simplicity, and the Missing Shade of Blue in Hume's Skeptical Empiricism, 19 February 2005. Presented for the 29th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

  9. How I Got the Blue: Cognitive Complexity, Epistemic Simplicity, and the Missing Shade of Blue in Hume's Skeptical Empiricism, 29 October 2004. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2004 conference in Mobile, Alabama.

  10. Sentences That Can't Be Said, or: How to Semanticize with a Hammer, 21 February 2004. Presented for the 28th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

  11. Sentences That Can't Be Said, or: How to Semanticize with a Hammer, 25 October 2003. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2003 conference in Orange Beach, Alabama.

  12. Are There Worlds Enough and Time?: Modality, Human Agency, and the Threat from the Past, 11 April 2003. Presented to the Auburn Philosophical Society in Auburn, Alabama.

  13. What’s Hecuba To Him?: True Fictions, Impossible Worlds, and Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Modals, 8 April 2003. Presented to the Dallas Philosopher’s Forum in Dallas, Texas.

  14. Are There Worlds Enough and Time?: Modality, Human Agency, and the Threat from the Past, 8 March 2003. Presented for the 5th Annual Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in Boulder, Colorado.

  15. Are There Worlds Enough and Time?: Modality, Human Agency, and the Threat from the Past, 26 October 2002. Presented to the Alabama Philosophical Society at its Fall 2002 conference in Orange Beach, Alabama.

  16. We the Living, or: It Ain’t All About Me, 27 September 2002. Invited paper for the Auburn Philosophical Society roundtable on Death in Auburn, Alabama.

  17. Can Don Quixote Tilt at William James? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Pierre Menard, 20 April 2002. Presented for The Ohio State University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, in Columbus, Ohio.

  18. True Fictions, the Problem of Evil, and Impossible Worlds, 22 February 2002. Presented for the Midsouth Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, in Memphis, Tennessee.

Invited comments

  1. Invited comments on Dr. Mylan Engel's Epistemic Contextualism and the Problem of Knowing What One Says, 24 February 2006. Presented for the 30th Annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

  2. Invited comments on Dr. Jan Narveson's Libertarianism: The Thick and the Thin and on Jack Ross's Labor and Liberty, 28 December 2005. Presented to the Molinari Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting in New York City.