Bibliography

Complete Bibliography

  1. Evolving Minds, Evolving Language: Metaphor as a Process of Conceptual Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence

    Manuscript (+Slideshow)

  2. Re-Engineering the Concept of Understanding for AI

    With Pierre Beckmann.

  3. Systematizers: Reason, Machines, and the Rise of Systematic Thought in Early Modern Philosophy, 1517–1790

    Book manuscript.

  4. The Invented Inventor: Adapting Intellectual Property to Generative AI

    Under review

  5. Why We Care about Understanding: Competence through Predictive Compression

    With Pierre Beckmann.

  6. Conceptual Engineering

    In Metzler Handbuch Analytische Philosophie. Hans-Johann Glock, Christoph Pfisterer and Stefan Roski (eds.). Stuttgart: Metzler.

  7. Explication or Amelioration? Carnapian Clarification as the Normative Basis for Conceptual Engineering

    The Monist. Special issue on Explication and Conceptual Engineering.

  8. Law as a Test of Conceptual Strength

    In Bernard Williams on Law and Jurisprudence: From Agency and Responsibility to Methodology. Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Daniel Peixoto Murata and Julieta Rabanos (eds.). Oxford: Hart. In Press.

  9. Naturalizing Minds: Genealogies of Thought in Hume and Nietzsche

    In Hume and Nietzsche. Peter Kail and Paolo Stellino (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  10. Needs of the Mind: How Aptic Normativity Can Guide Conceptual Adaptation

    Philosophical Studies. 2026.

  11. Reasons of Love and Conceptual Good-for-Nothings

    In Themes from Susan Wolf. Michael Frauchiger and Markus Stepanians (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter. In Press.

  12. The Romantic Roots of Internalism

    With Nikhil Krishnan.

  13. Une normativité sans histoire ? Foucault, Engel et la normativité de la vérité

    Forthcoming in Dialogue : Revue canadienne de philosophie

  14. Mechanistic Indicators of Understanding in Large Language Models

    Philosophical Studies. 2026. With Pierre Beckmann.

  15. The Authority and Politics of Epiphanic Experience

    Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie (ZEMO) – Journal for Ethics and Moral Philosophy 9, 8 (2026).

  16. Bernard Williams on Philosophy and History

    Edited with Marcel van Ackeren. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025.

  17. Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains

    Philosophy & Technology 38 (34): 1–27. 2025.

  18. Doing History Philosophically and Philosophy Historically

    With Marcel van Ackeren. In Bernard Williams on Philosophy and History. Marcel van Ackeren and Matthieu Queloz (eds.), 14–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025.

  19. Dropping Anchor in Rough Seas: Co-Reasoning with Personalized AI Advisors and the Liberalism of Fear

    Philosophy & Technology 38 (170): 1–7. 2025. Invited commentary.

  20. Explainability through Systematicity: The Hard Systematicity Challenge for Artificial Intelligence

    Minds and Machines 35 (35): 1–39. 2025.

  21. Internalism from the Ethnographic Stance: From Self-Indulgence to Self-Expression and Corroborative Sense-Making

    The Philosophical Quarterly 75 (3): 1094–1120. 2025.

  22. Kein Sicherheitsnetz der Wahrheit: Warum Normativität für LLMs schwierig bleibt

    meta(φ) 13 (1): 51—89. 2025.

  23. On the Fundamental Limitations of AI Moral Advisors

    Philosophy & Technology 38 (71): 1–4. 2025. Invited commentary.

  24. The Ethics of Conceptualization: Tailoring Thought and Language to Need

    Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025.

  25. Williams’s Debt to Wittgenstein

    In Bernard Williams on Philosophy and History. Marcel van Ackeren and Matthieu Queloz (eds.), 283–316. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025. With Nikhil Krishnan.

  26. Defending Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering

    Analysis 84 (2): 385–400. 2024. Symposium on my The Practical Origins of Ideas. By invitation.

  27. Moralism as a Dualism in Ethics and Politics

    Political Philosophy 1 (2): 432–462. 2024.

  28. Précis of The Practical Origins of Ideas

    Analysis 84 (2): 341–344. 2024. Symposium on my The Practical Origins of Ideas. By invitation.

  29. The Dworkin–Williams Debate: Liberty, Conceptual Integrity, and Tragic Conflict in Politics

    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109 (1): 3–29. 2024.

  30. Virtue Ethics and the Morality System

    Topoi 43 (2): 413–424. 2024. With Marcel van Ackeren.

  31. Virtues, Rights, or Consequences? Mapping the Way for Conceptual Ethics

    Studia Philosophica: The Swiss Journal of Philosophy 83 (1): 9–22. 2024.

  32. Debunking Concepts

    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 47 (1): 195–225. By invitation. 2023.

  33. Ethics Beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    Mind 132 (525): 234–243. 2023.

  34. Making Past Thinkers Speak to Us Through Pragmatic Genealogies

    In Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons. Sandra Lapointe and Erich Reck (eds.), 171–191. New York: Routledge. 2023.

  35. On the Self-Undermining Functionality Critique of Morality

    European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 501–508. By invitation. 2023.

  36. The Shaken Realist: Bernard Williams, the War, and Philosophy as Cultural Critique

    European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 226–247. 2023. With Nikhil Krishnan.

  37. A Shelter from Luck: The Morality System Reconstructed

    In Morality and Agency: Themes from Bernard Williams. András Szigeti and Matthew Talbert (eds.), 184–211. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022.

  38. Conceptual Engineering and the Politics of Implementation

    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 103 (3): 670–691. 2022. With Friedemann Bieber.

  39. Function-Based Conceptual Engineering and the Authority Problem

    Mind 131 (524): 1247–1278. 2022.

  40. Genealogy, Evaluation, and Engineering

    The Monist 105 (4): 435–51. By invitation. 2022.

  41. Nietzsche’s Conceptual Ethics

    Inquiry 66 (7): 1335–1364. Proceedings of the International Society of Nietzsche Studies. 2023.

  42. The Essential Superficiality of the Voluntary and the Moralization of Psychology

    Philosophical Studies 179 (5): 1591–1620. 2022.

  43. Theorizing the Normative Significance of Critical Histories for International Law

    Journal of the History of International Law 24 (4): 561–587. 2022. With Damian Cueni.

  44. Choosing Values? Williams contra Nietzsche

    The Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2): 286–307. 2021.

  45. Ideas that Work

    Aeon: A World of Ideas, June 24, 2021.

  46. Left Wittgensteinianism

    European Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 758–77. 2021. With Damian Cueni.

  47. Nietzsche’s English Genealogy of Truthfulness

    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (2): 341–63. 2021.

  48. The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering

    Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021.

  49. The Self-Effacing Functionality of Blame

    Philosophical Studies 178 (4): 1361–1379. 2021.

  50. Tracing Concepts to Needs

    The Philosopher 109 (3): 34—39. 2021.

  51. Whence the Demand for Ethical Theory?

    American Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2): 135–46. 2021. With Damian Cueni.

  52. From Paradigm-Based Explanation to Pragmatic Genealogy

    Mind 129 (515): 683–714. 2020.

  53. How Genealogies Can Affect the Space of Reasons

    Synthese 197 (5): 2005–2027. 2020.

  54. On Ordered Pluralism

    Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (3): 305–11. 2019.

  55. Revealing Social Functions through Pragmatic Genealogies

    In Social Functions in Philosophy: Metaphysical, Normative, and Methodological Perspectives. Rebekka Hufendiek, Daniel James, and Raphael Van Riel (eds.), 200–218. London: Routledge. 2020.

  56. Genealogy and Knowledge-First Epistemology: A Mismatch?

    The Philosophical Quarterly 69 (274): 100–120. 2019.

  57. Nietzsche as a Critic of Genealogical Debunking: Making Room for Naturalism without Subversion

    The Monist 102 (3): 277–297. 2019. With Damian Cueni.

  58. Nietzsches affirmative Genealogien

    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (3): 429–439. By invitation. 2019.

  59. The Points of Concepts: Their Types, Tensions, and Connections

    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (8): 1122–1145. 2019.

  60. Davidsonian Causalism and Wittgensteinian Anti-Causalism: A Rapprochement

    Ergo 5 (6): 153–72. 2018.

  61. Williams’s Pragmatic Genealogy and Self-Effacing Functionality

    Philosophers’ Imprint 18 (17): 1–20. 2018. doi:2027/spo.3521354.0018.017

  62. Does Philosophy Have a Vindicatory History? Bernard Williams on the History of Philosophy

    Studia Philosophica 76: 137–52. 2017.

  63. Two Orders of Things: Wittgenstein on Reasons and Causes

    Philosophy 92 (3): 369–97. 2017.

  64. Nietzsche’s Pragmatic Genealogy of Justice

    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (4): 727–49. 2017.

  65. The Double Nature of DNA: Reevaluating the Common Heritage Idea

    The Journal of Political Philosophy 24 (1): 47–66. 2016.

  66. Wittgenstein on the Chain of Reasons

    Wittgenstein-Studien 7 (1): 105–30. 2016.