Books

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The Concept of Justice, MacMillan 1971 (New Studies in Practical Philosophy series)

Evidence and Assurance, Cambridge University Press 1980 (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy series)

Will and World:: A Study in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press 1992

The Price of Doubt, Routledge 2000 (International Library of Philosophy series)

A Map of Selves, Routledge 2022

Selected Articles

History, literature and the classification of knowledgeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy, 48 (1970) 213-33

Brentano’s necessitarianismRatio 13 (1971) 44-55

‘On the justification of democracy’ The Monist 55 (1971) 89-120

‘Freedom of indifference’ Ratio 18 (1976) 124-130

‘Necessity, inconceivability and the a priori’  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 56 (1982) 117-133

A new incompatibilismMind 93 (1984) 39-55

Social choice theory versus the peopleRatio 26 (1984) 33-40

Simple coloursPhilosophy 61 (1986) 345-353

Explicability and the unpreventableAnalysis 48 (1988) 36-40

Three philosophical research programmesRatio NS 2 (1989) 46-62

McTaggart’s immaterialismPhilosophical Quarterly 41 (1991) 442-456

* ‘On the ethics of beliefRatio NS 5 (1992) 147-159.

‘Weak materialism’ in H.Robinson (ed.) Objections to Physicalism (Oxford University Press, 1993) 207-224

‘Democracy’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 93 (1992-3) 123-137.

‘Hopkins’s selfless self of self’’ Literature and Theology 7 (1993), 397-402.

Self and willInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (1997), 81-94

‘Naturalism and self-defeat: Plantinga’s version’ Religious Studies 33 (1997), 135-42

‘True and ultimate responsibility’ Philosophy 72 (1997), 297-302

‘Stoics and Sceptics: a reply to Brueckner’ Analysis 64 (2004), 264-268

Jewish monotheism and the Christian God’, Religious Studies 42 (2005), 1-11

‘Direct realism: proximate causation and the missing object’ Acta Analytica 20 (2005), 3-6

‘Exclusion and sufficient reason’ Philosophy 85 (2010), 391- 397

Substance dualism fortified’, Philosophy 86 (2011), 201-211

 Selected Reviews

G.A.Cohen, Karl Marx’s Theory of History, Mind  89 (1980), 628-632

John  Foster, The Nature of Perception, Mind  110 (2001) 455-460  

Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and  its Limits, Philosophy  76 (2001) 460-464

William Charlton, Being Reasonable about Religion, Philosophy  83 2006) 145-149