Articles

78. 'Action, Passion, Power', Noûs 2024, doi: 10.1111/nous.12523 (abstract; open access)

77. 'Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist' (D.S. Oderberg, J. Hill, C. Austin, I. Bojak, F. Cinotti, J.M. Gibbins), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2023, doi: 10.1086/724444 (abstract; open access)

76. 'Who's Afraid of Reverse Mereological Essentialism?', Philosophical Studies 2023 (abstract: full text)

75. 'Mistake-Making: A Theoretical Framework for Generating Research Questions in Biology, With Illustrative Application to Blood Clotting' (J. Hill, D.S. Oderberg, J.M. Gibbins, I. Bojak), The Quarterly Review of Biology 97 (2022): 2-13 (abstract; full text)

74. 'Is Prime Matter Energy?', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2022 (abstractfull text) 

73. 'Restoring the Hierarchy of Being', in William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons and James Orr (eds) Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (London: Routledge, 2021): 94-124. (abstract; full text).

72. 'Principle of Sufficient Reason', in Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (eds) The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion (Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2021) (page nos. unavailable) (full text)

71. 'The Order of Charity', Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie 4 (2021):337-355 (abstract; full text)

70. 'Formal Causation: Accidental and Substantial', in Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad (eds) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation (London: Routledge, 2021): 40-61 (abstract; email for full text)

69. 'Siphonophores: A Metaphysical Case Study', in Anne Sophie Meincke and John Dupré (eds) Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology (London: Routledge): 22-39 (abstract; full text)

68. 'How Special is Medical Conscience?', The New Bioethics 25 (2019): 207-20 (abstract; full text)

67. 'On a So-Called Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences', Studia Neoaristotelica 16 (2019): 141-8 (abstract; full text)

66. 'Death, Unity, and the Brain', Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40 (2019): 359-79 (abstract; full text)

65. 'The Impossibility of Natural Necessity', in Alexander Carruth, Sophie Gibb, and John Heil (eds) Ontology, Modality, and Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E.J. Lowe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 73-92 (abstract; full text)

64. 'The Storage Problem Revisited: Reply to Díaz', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2018): 97-105 (abstract; full text)

63. 'The Great Unifier: Form and the Unity of the Organism', in William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas J. Teh (eds) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (New York: Routledge, 2018): 211-34 (abstract; full text) Video here

62. 'No Beginning, No Explanation: the Kalām Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason', in Paul Copan and William Lane Craig (eds) The Kalām Cosmological Argument: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 120-34 (abstract; email for full text)

61. 'Should there be Freedom of Dissociation?', Economic Affairs 37 (2017): 167-81 (abstract; full text) Video here

60. 'Co-operation in the Age of Hobby Lobby: When Sincerity is Not Enough', Expositions 11 (2017): 15-30 (abstract; full text)

59. 'Further Clarity on Cooperation and Morality', Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (2017): 192-200 (Editor's Choice) (abstract; full text). Peer commentary here and here, with response by me here.

58: 'Finality Revived: Powers and Intentionality', Synthese 194 (2017): 2387-2425 (abstract; full text)

57. 'Divine Premotion', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 79 (2016): 207-222 (abstract; full text)

56. 'Religion and Normative Ethics', in G. Oppy (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2015):  316-28 (abstract; full text)

55. 'All for the Good', Philosophical Investigations 38 (2015): 72-95 (abstract; full text)

54. 'Being and Goodness', American Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2014): 345-56 (abstract; full text)

53. 'Could There Be a Superhuman Species?', The Southern Journal of Philosophy 52 (2014): 206-26. (abstract; full text)

52. 'The Metaphysics of Privation', in R. Hüntelmann and J. Hattler (eds) New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy (Heusenstamm: Editiones Scholasticae, 2014): 63-88. (abstract; full text)

51. 'Is Form Structure?', in D.D. Novotný and L. Novák (eds) Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (London: Routledge, 2014): 164-80 (abstract; full text)

50. 'The Morality of Reputation and the Judgment of Others', Journal of Practical Ethics 1 (2013): 3-33 (full text; accompanying podcast)

49. 'Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation', in E. Feser (ed.) Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013): 206-35. (abstract; full text)

48. 'Natural Law and Rights Theory', in G. Gaus and F. D'Agostino (eds) The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2013): 375-86. (abstract; full text)

47. 'Survivalism, Corruptionism, and Mereology', European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2012): 1-26. (abstract; full text)

46. 'Hume, the Occult, and the Substance of the School', Metaphysica 13 (2012): 155-74. (abstract; full text)

45. 'No Potency without Actuality: The Case of Graph Theory', in Tuomas E. Tahko (ed.) Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012): 207-28. (abstract; full text)

44. 'Graph Structuralism and its Discontents: Rejoinder to Shackel', Analysis 72 (2012): 94-8. (abstract; full text)

43. 'Disembodied Communication and Religious Experience: The Online Model', Philosophy and Technology 25 (2012): 381-97. (abstract; full text)

42. 'Essence and Properties', Erkenntnis 75 (2011): 85-111. (abstract; full text )

41. 'Morality, Religion, and Cosmic Justice', Philosophical Investigations 34 (2011): 189-213. (Invited contribution to special issue on the theme 'Ethics and Religion'.) (abstract; full text)

40. 'The World is not an Asymmetric Graph', Analysis 71 (2011): 3-10. (abstract; full text)

39. 'The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law', in H. Zaborowski (ed.) Natural Moral Law in Contemporary Society (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2010): 44-75. (abstract; full text)

38. 'The Doctrine of Double Effect', in T. O'Connor and C. Sandis (eds) A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010): 324-30. (abstract; full text)

37. ‘"Whatever is Changing is Being Changed by Something Else": A Reappraisal of Premise One of the First Way', in J. Cottingham and P. Hacker (eds) Mind, Method and Morality: Essays in Honour of Anthony Kenny (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 140-64. (abstract; full text)

36. 'Persistence', in J. Kim, E. Sosa, and G. Rosenkrantz (eds) A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009): 55-65. (abstract; full text)

35. 'The Non-Identity of the Categorical and the Dispositional', Analysis 69 (2009): 677-84. (abstract; full text)

34. 'The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited', Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (2008): 263-76. (abstract; full text) Ingmar Persson replies to this in ‘The Origination of a Human Being: A Reply to Oderberg’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2009): 371-8. My unpublished rejoinder is here.

33. 'Concepts, Dualism, and the Human Intellect', in A. Antonietti, A. Corradini, and E.J. Lowe (eds) Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefied, 2008): 211-33. (abstract; full text)

32. 'Self-Love, Love of Neighbour, and Impartiality', in N. Athanassoulis and S. Vice (eds), The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008): 58-84. (abstract; full text)

31. 'Teleology: Inorganic and Organic', in A.M. González (ed.), Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008): 259-79. (abstract; full text)

30. 'The Cosmological Argument', in C. Meister and P. Copan (eds) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2007): 341-50. (abstract; full text)

29. 'Instantaneous Change without Instants', in C. Paterson and M.S. Pugh (eds) Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006): 101-18. (abstract; full text)

28. (with J.A. Laing) 'Artificial Reproduction, the "Welfare Principle", and the Common Good', Medical Law Review 13 (2005): 328-56. (abstract; full text)

27. 'Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering', in N. Athanassoulis (ed.) Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): 109-134. (abstract; full text)

26. 'Hylemorphic Dualism', in E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, and J. Paul (eds) Personal Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 70-99. (Originally in Social Philosophy and Policy 22 (2005): 70-99.) (abstract; full text)

25.'Predicate Logic and Bare Particulars', in D.S. Oderberg (ed.) The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005): 183-210. (abstract; full text)

24.'The Structure and Content of the Good', in D.S. Oderberg and T. Chappell (eds) Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; rev. ed. p/back 2007): 127-65. (abstract; full text) (Spanish trans. with reply by E. Ortiz, Scio 2 (2008).)

23. 'The Beginning of Existence', International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2003): 145-57. (abstract; full text)

22. 'Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2004): 686-708. (abstract; full text)

21. 'The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing', in A. O'Hear (ed.) Modern Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series 2002-3): 203-27. (abstract; full text)

20. 'Intelligibility and Intensionality', Acta Analytica 17 (2002) 171-8. (abstract; full text)

19. 'The Tristram Shandy Paradox: A Reply to Graham Oppy', Philosophia Christi 4 (2002): 353-6. (abstract; full text)

18. 'Traversal of the Infinite, the “Big Bang,” and the Kalam Cosmological Argument', Philosophia Christi 4 (2002): 305-34. (abstract; full text) Graham Oppy replies to this in 'The Tristram Shandy Paradox: A Response to David S. Oderberg', Philosophia Christi 4 (2002): 335-49. My rejoinder is item 19 above.

17. 'Hylomorphism and Individuation', in J. Haldane (ed.) Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002: 125-42). (abstract; full text)

16. 'How to Win Essence Back from Essentialists', Philosophical Writings (No. 18, Autumn 2001): 27-45. (abstract; full text)

15.  'The Kalam Cosmological Argument Neither Bloodied nor Bowed: A Response to Graham Oppy', Philosophia Christi 3 (2001): 193-6. (abstract; full text)

14. 'Is There a Right to be Wrong?', Philosophy 75 (2000): 517-37. (abstract; full text)

13. 'On the Cardinality of the Cardinal Virtues', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7 (1999): 305-22. (abstract; full text)

12. 'Adolf Grünbaum and the Beginning of the Universe', Philosophia Naturalis 36 (1999): 187-94. (abstract; full text)

11. 'Analytická morálna filozofia v20.storocí' (Analytical Moral Philosophy in the 20th Century), in V.Gluchman & M. Dokulil (eds.), Súcasné Etické Teórie (Contemporary Ethical Theories) (Presov, Slovakia,1998): 9-23. (full text, English version)

10. 'On an Alleged Fallacy in Aristotle', Philosophical Papers 27 (1998): 107-18. (abstract; full text)

9. 'Modal Properties, Moral Status and Identity', Philosophy and Public Affairs 26 (1997): 259-98. (abstract; full text)

8.'Voluntary Euthanasia and Justice', in D.S. Oderberg and J.A. Laing (eds.) Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (London: Macmillan, 1997): 225-40. (abstract; full text)

7. 'Coincidence under a Sortal', The Philosophical Review 105 (1996): 145-71. (abstract; full text)

6. 'A Paradox about Authority', Analysis 51 (1991): 153-160. (abstract; full text)

5. 'Some Problems of Identity over Time', Cogito 5 (1991): 14-20. (abstract; full text)

4. 'Reply to Sprigge on Personal and Impersonal Identity', Mind 98 (1989): 129-34. (abstract; full text)

3. 'Johnston on Human Beings', The Journal of Philosophy 86 (1989): 137-41. (abstract; full text)

2. 'Kripke and "Quus" ', Theoria 53 (1987): 115-20. (abstract; full text)

1. 'Perceptual Relativism' , Philosophia 16 (1986): 1-9. (abstract; full text