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Publications:

"Intransitive Preferences, Vagueness, and the Structure of Procrastination", in Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White, eds., The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 68-86.

"The Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements: A Solution to Braybrooke's Problem", in Sue Sherwin and Peter Schotch, eds., Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 77-99.

"Who Owns Me, Me or my Mother? How to Escape Okin's Problem for Nozick's and Narveson's Theory of Entitlement", in Malcolm Murray, ed., Liberty, Games and Contracts: Jan Narveson and the Defence of Libertarianism (Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007), pp. 157-171.

"Review of G.F. Schueler, Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)", in Philosophical Books Vol. 48 No. 1 (January 2007), pp. 86-88. 

"Prudence and the Temporal Structure of Practical Reasons", in Christine Tappolet and Sarah Stroud, Eds., Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003), pp. 230-250.

"Prudence and the Reasons of Rational Persons," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 79, No. 3 (September 2001), pp. 346-365.

"Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality," in Peter Danielson, Ed., Modeling Rationality, Morality and Evolution; Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, Volume 7 (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 282-301.

"Partial Convergence and Approximate Truth," The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 45, No. 1, March (1994a), pp. 153-170.

"Could God Have Made the Big Bang? (On Theistic Counterfactuals)," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, XXXIII (1994b), pp. 3-20.

"Persons and the Satisfaction of Preferences: Problems in the Rational Kinematics of Values," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XC, No. 4 (April 1993), pp. 163-180.

"Preference-Revision and the Paradoxes of Instrumental Rationality," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 1992a), pp. 503-530.

"Buridan and the Circumstances of Justice (On the Implications of the Rational Unsolvability of Certain Co-ordination Problems)," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 2 (1992b), pp. 150-173.

"Co-Operative Solutions to the Prisoner's Dilemma," Philosophical Studies, 64 (1991a), pp. 309-321.

"Preference's Progress: Rational Self-Alteration and the Rationality of Morality," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, XXX (1991b), pp. 3-32.

"McClennen's Early Co-operative Solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXIX (1991c), pp. 341-358.

"Retaliation Rationalized: Gauthier's Solution to the Deterrence Dilemma," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 72 (1991d), pp. 9-32.

"Ideal Moral Codes," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXVIII (1990), pp. 389-408.

"Modality, Mechanism, and Translational Indeterminacy,"  Dialogue:  Canadian Philosophical Review, XXVIII (1989a), pp. 391-399.

"Two Gauthiers?," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, XXVIII (1989b), pp. 43-61.

"Libertarian Agency and Rational Morality: Action-Theoretic Objections to Gauthier's Dispositional Solution of the Compliance Problem," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXVI (1988a), pp. 499-525.

"The Impossibility of Quine's Indeterminacy Thesis," in Venant Cauchy, ed., Philosophy and Culture: Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy, (Montreal: Editions du Beffroi; Editions Montmorency, 1988b), Volume III, Philosophy of Language, Section 7, pp. 22-26.

"Gerald Vision On Indexicals," (with Julia Colterjohn), Analysis, 47 (New Series No. 213) (1987), pp. 58-60.

"Rationalizing Naturalism: Commentary on `Naturalizing Rationality', by Hilary Kornblith," in Naturalism and Rationality, Newton Garver and Peter H. Hare, editors (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1986) (Proceedings of the SUNY at Buffalo Conference on Rationality and Naturalism), pp. 135-139.

Review of Frederic Schick, Having Reasons: An Essay On Rationality and Sociality,  The Queen's Quarterly, 92 (1985), pp. 630-631.

"How to Put Reality Into Language," in Science vs. Reality: A Debate, (Proceedings of the Dalhousie Conference on Scientific Realism), a special issue of The Dalhousie Review, 64 (1984), pp. 522-528.

Review of Martin Hollis and Steven Lukes (eds.), Rationality and Relativism, The Queen's Quarterly, 91 (1984), pp. 461-463.