Essays
The Intentional, the Relational and the Transitive in Les Institutions de Sens
For a special issue of Klēsis on the work of Vincent Descombes (2025)
Sartre, the Look, and the Cogito
in Analytic Existentialism, edited by Berislav Marušić and Mark Schroeder (Oxford, 2024)
The Pursuit of Uncertainty: Knowledge, Deferral and Self-Defeat in Proust
in The Proustian Mind, edited by Anna Elsner and Thomas Stern (Routledge, 2023)
Self-Consciousness and Self-Division in the Moral Psychology of Christine Korsgaard
in Normativity and Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Christine M. Korsgaard, edited by Tamar Schapiro, Kyla Ebels-Duggan and Sharon Street (Oxford 2022)
The Philosophical Retreat to the Here and Now: Notes on Living in Time
(2022) Philosophy 97 (4)
Swann’s Medical Philosophy
in Oxford Studies in Literature and Philosophy: Proust, edited by Katherine Elkins (2022)
Formalism and the Appearance of Nature
in Michael Fried and Philosophy: Absorption, Theatricality, and Modernism, edit., Matthew Abbott, (Routledge, 2017)
Modernism, Theatricality, and Objecthood
in ‘Art and Objecthood at Fifty’, Nonsite.org, issue # 21, http://nonsite.org/issues/issue-21-art-and-objecthood-at-fifty
Cavell on Betrayal, Recognition and the Photographic Field of Expression
Harvard Review of Philosophy (vol. IIXXX), 2016)
The Story of My Life: Narrative and Self-Understanding
Aquinas Lecture 2015, published by Marquette University
Selbstwissen: Die Grundidee
in: E.John/ L.Ljucovic (ed.), Praktisches Selbstwissen, Special Issue, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (DZPhil), Berlin: de Gruyter (2015)
Proust and the Limits of the Will
in my collection The Philosophical Imagination (Oxford, 2020)
Williams, History, and "the impurity of philosophy’
The European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 2, June 2016
Testimony, Illocution, and the Second Person
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 87 (1):115-135 (2013)
A la cantonade : L’altérité et les institutions de la parole
Le social a l’esprit: Dialogues avec Vincent Descombes
Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty
Critical Inquiry vol. 38, no. 2, Winter 2012
Cavell on Outsiders and Others
Revue Intenationale du Philosophie, 2011/2 - no. 256, pp. 239-254, special issue edited by Sandra Laugier.
Self-knowledge, 'Transparency', and the Forms of Activity
in Introspection and Consciousness, edited by Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar (OUP, 2012)
Anscombe on Expression of Intention
(with Martin Stone), Constantine Sandis (ed.), New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Palgrave Macmillan (2009)
reprinted in Essays on Anscombe's Intention, edited by Anton Ford and Jennifer Hornsby (Harvard University Press, 2011)
Iris Murdoch and Existentialism
in Iris Murdoch, Philosopher (Justin Broackes, ed.), Oxford, 2011
Getting Told and Being Believed
The Philosopher’s Imprint, vol. 5, no. 5, 2006, reprinted in The Epistemology of Testimony, edited by Jennifer Lackey and Ernest Sosa (Oxford, 2006)
German translation, ‘Den Zeugen beim Wort Nehmen’, trans. David Lauer, in Philosophie der Zeugenschaft Sybille Krämer, Sibylle Schmidt, and Johannes-Georg Schülein, eds. (Munster, Mentis 2017
Anscombe on 'Practical Knowledge'
in Agency and Action, eds. J. Hyman & H. Steward, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 43 68 (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 55)
Problems of Sincerity
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 105, pp. 341 361 December 2005
Frankfurt on Identification: Ambiguities of Activity in Mental Life
in Contours of Agency: Essays for Harry Frankfurt; edited by Sarah Buss and Lee Overton (MIT 2001)
The Authority of Self-Consciousness
Philosophical Topics, 1999-00
Self-Knowledge: Discovery, Resolution, and Undoing
European Journal of Philosophy, 1997
Artifice and Persuasion: The Work of Metaphor in the Rhetoric
in Philosophical Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric, A. O. Rorty, ed. (University of California Press, 1995)
Metaphor
in Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, eds., (Blackwell, 1997)
Interpretation Theory and the First-Person
Philosophical Quarterly, April 1994
The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
Philosophical Review, January 1994
Impersonality, Character, and Moral Expressivism
Journal of Philosophy, November 1993
Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image, and Force
Critical Inquiry, Autumn, 1989
Making Up Your Mind: Self-Interpretation and Self-Constitution
Ratio, December, 1988