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Journal Articles:

  • Metaetica milliana. Quaderni di Scienza Politica, 17(2): 245-265. August 2010.

  • Practical Reasoning for Serial Hyperspecializers. Philosophical Explorations, 12(3): 261-278. September 2009.

  • John Stuart Mill, Determinism, and the Problem of Induction. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 87(2): 183-199. June 2009.

  • Liberty, the Higher Pleasures, and Mill's Missing Science of Ethnic Jokes. Social Philosophy and Policy, 26(1): 326-353. Winter 2009. (University of Utah Institutional Repository link; Cambridge Journals link)

  • Who Was Nietzsche's Genealogist? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 75(1): 92-110. July 2007.

  • The Ontological Meta-Argument (and the Ontological Argument for the Actuality of the World). Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 4(12): 331-334. 2004.

  • On Being Bored Out of Your Mind. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104(2): 163-184. 2004. (JSTOR)

  • Does the Categorical Imperative Give Rise to a Contradiction in the Will? Philosophical Review 112(4): 525-560. October 2003. (JSTOR; reprinted, with postscript, in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Murdoch, Practical Reasoning, and Particularism. Notizie di Politeia 18(66): 64-87. 2002. (Reprinted in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Commensurability in Perspective. Topoi 21(1-2): 217-226. 2002. (Reprinted in Ethics Done Right; Springer Link.)

  • What's the Use of Utility? Philosophy and Public Affairs, 29(2): 113-136. Spring 2000. (Reprinted in Ethics Done Right; JSTOR.)

  • Coherence: The Price of the Ticket. Journal of Philosophy, 97(2): 82-93. February 2000. (JSTOR.)

  • Mill's Proof of the Principle of Utility. Ethics, 110(2): 282-310. January 2000. (JSTOR; reprinted in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Moral Values and Secondary Qualities. American Philosophical Quarterly 36(3):253-255. July 1999 (JSTOR).

  • Hume on Practical Reasoning. Iyyun, 46: 235-265. July 1997. (Reprinted (as "Hume on 'Is' and 'Ought'") in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Deliberative Coherence. (By Elijah Millgram and Paul Thagard.) Synthese 108(1): 63-88. July 1996 (JSTOR).

  • Williams' Argument Against External Reasons. Nous, 30(2): 197-220. June 1996. (JSTOR; reprinted in R. J. Wallace, Reason, Emotion and Will [Brookfield: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 1999]: 137-160.)

  • Was Hume a Humean? Hume Studies, 21(1): 75-93. April 1995. (Reprinted in R. Cohon, Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy [Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2001]: 39-57; and in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Pleasure in Practical Reasoning. The Monist, 76(3): 394-415. July 1993. (JSTOR; reprinted in Varieties of Practical Reasoning.)

  • Harman's Hardness Arguments. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 72(3): 181-202. September 1991. (University of Utah Institutional Repository link; reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual 14: 233-254. 1991.)

  • Aristotle on Making Other Selves. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 17(2):361-76. June 1987. (JSTOR)

Chapters in Books:

  • Mill's Incubus. In B. Eggleston, D. Miller and D. Weinstein, John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 169-191.

  • Pluralism about Action. In T. O'Connor and C. Sandis, A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010): 90-96.

  • Virtue for Procrastinators. In C. Andreou and M. White, The Thief of Time (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 151-164.

  • Applied Ethics, Moral Skepticism and Reasons with Expiration Dates. In S. Black and E. Tiffany, Reasons to be Moral Revisited (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009): 263-280. (Project MUSE)

  • The Persistence of Moral Skepticism and the Limits of Moral Education. In H. Siegel, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009): 245-259.

  • D'où venons-nous... Que sommes nous... Où allons-nous? In D. Callcut, Reading Bernard Williams (New York: Routledge, 2009): 141-165.

  • Specificationism. In J. Adler and L. Rips, Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and Its Foundations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 731-747.

  • Reasonably Virtuous. In Ethics Done Right.

  • Hume, Political Noncognitivism, and the History of England. In Ethics Done Right.

  • How to Make Something of Yourself. In D. Schmidtz, Robert Nozick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 175-198.

  • Practical Reasoning: The Current State of Play. In Varieties of Practical Reasoning: 1-26.

  • Deciding to Desire. In C. Fehige and U. Wessels, Preferences (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998): 3-25.

  • Incommensurability and Practical Reasoning. In R. Chang, Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997): 151-169. (Reprinted in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Varieties of Practical Reasoning. In G. Meggle, Analyomen 2 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997): vol. 3, 280-294. (Reprinted, as "Varieties of Practical Reasoning and Varieties of Moral Theory," in Ethics Done Right.)

  • Inference to the Best Plan: A Coherence Theory of Decision. (By Paul Thagard and Elijah Millgram.) In D. Leake and A. Ram, Goal-Driven Learning (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995): 439-454.

  • Inhaltsreiche ethische Begriffe und die Unterscheidung zwischen Tatsachen und Werten. In C. Fehige and G. Meggle, Zum moralischen Denken (Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1995): 354-388. (English mss)

Discussion:

  • Ismael's Anscombian and Dennettian Selves. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82(3): 759-762. May 2011. Wiley Online

  • Book Symposium: Hard Truths. Analysis Reviews, 71(2): 311-351. April 2011.

  • Kantian Crystallization. Ethics, 114(3): 511-513. April 2004. (JSTOR)

  • An Apprentice Argument. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54(4): 913-916. December 1994. (JSTOR)

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