The UD Philosophy Department aspires to be the best undergraduate-only philosophy department in the world. That requires excellence in both teaching and research. In terms of research, we consistently publish articles in prestigious journals and produce books with the best presses. Here are a few of our most recent publications:
Adams, Fred (with D. Weiskopf) 2015: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology. Cambridge Univ. Press.
Boorse, Christopher 2014: "A Second Rebuttal on Health." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39: 683-724. Journal issue title: "Christopher Boorse and the Philosophy of Medicine."
Draper, Kai 2015: War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just War Theory . Oxford Univ. Press.
Koltonski, Daniel 2022: "But I've Got My Own Life to Live: Personal Pursuits and the Demands of Morality" Social Theory and Practice 48.2 (April 2022) 263-284
Fox, Alan 2020: Metaphysics Without Ontology, in David Chai, ed., Dao Companion to Neo-Daoism, Springer Press, pp301-321, 2020.
Greene, Mark 2013: "Saving a Life but Losing the Patient." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 34(6): 479-498.
Jordan, Jeff 2015: “Evidentialism and Theistic Pragmatic Arguments" Handbook of Philosophy of Religion (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022): 79-90
Lee, Hsin-Wen 2023: “Cultural Nationalism and Just Secession," in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy, Janusz Salaman and Hsin-Wen Lee (eds.), Bloomsbury, forthcoming (2023).
Powers, Tom (with DG Johnson) 2014: "Ethics and Technology: A Program for Future Research" in Society, Ethics, and Technology, 5th edition, eds. M. Winston and R. Edelbach. Wadsworth Publishing.
Pust, Joel 2015: "Beauty and Generalized Conditionalization: Reply to Horgan and Mahtani." Erkenntnis 79: 687-700.
Pust, Joel 2022: “Dutch Books and Logical Form." Philosophy of Science 88: 961-970.
Rogers, Katherin 2022: The Experimental Approach to Free Will: Freedom in the Laboratory. Routledge.
Schueler, Fred “Why? and How?: Teleological and Causal Concepts in Explanations of Action", in Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography: Causal and Teleological Approaches (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy), (Edited by Gunnar Schumann) (2019)
Schueler, Fred “Deliberation and Desire" in The Nature of Desire, (Edited by Julien Deonna & Federico Lauria) Oxford University Press (2017)
Schueler, Fred “Intentionality" in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, (Hugh LaFollette. Ed.), Wiley, 2013
Schueler, Fred “Direction of Fit" in International Encyclopedia of Ethics, (Hugh LaFollette. Ed.), Wiley, 2013
Schueler, Fred “Motivational Internalism and Externalism", in Companion to the Philosophy of Action, ed. by Timothy O'Connor and Constantine Sandis, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2010.
Shabo, Seth 2022: “Responsibility, Personal Relationships, and the Significance of the Reactive Attitudes,” in D. Pereboom and D. Nelkin (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 566–589.
Swanson, Noel (with David Baker and Hans Halvorson) fothcoming: "The Conventionality of Parastatistics." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.