Essays

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