A selection of my published articles:

Metaphysics:

• "Vague Existence Implies Vague Identity" Vague Objects and Vague Identity ed. Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad, Springer. 2014
  
• "Who Doesn't Have a Problem of Too Many Thinkers?" American Philosophical Quarterly. 50:2, April 2013, 203-208.
  
• "Four-Dimensional Animalism" Essays on Animalism Anthology eds. Paul Snowdon and Stephan Blatti. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
  
• "Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity?" Mind. 114:453, January 2005, 31-59.
  
• "Organisms and Their Bodies." Mind. 2009, 118:70. 803-809.
  
• "Problems with a Constitution Account of Persons." Dialogue. 48:2. 2009, 291-312.
  
• "The Thesis of Vague Objects and Unger's Problem of the Many." Philosophical Papers. 30:1, March 2001, 47-57.
• "Can There Be Spatially Coincident Entities of the Same Kind?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 31:1, March 2003, 1-22.
• "A Hylomorphic Account of Thought Experiments Concerning Personal Identity." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 82:3. 2008. 481-502.
  

• "Lowe's Defense of Constitution and the Principle of Weak Extensionality." Ratio. 21:2, June 2008, 168-181.
  
• "Olson's Embryo Problem." Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 80:4, December 2002, 502-511.
• "Persons as Proper Parts of Organisms." Theoria. 71:1, 2005, 29-37.
  
• "Countering the Appeal of the Psychological Approach to Personal Identity." Philosophy. 79, 2004, pp. 445-472.
  
• "The Memory Criterion and the Problem of Backward Causation." International Philosophical Quarterly. 47:2:186, June 2007, 181-85.
  
• "Scattered Artifacts." The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 40:2, 2002, 211-126.
• "Shoemaker's Problem of Too Many Thinkers." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 80, 2007, 225-36.
  
• "Identity Matters" The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics ed. Manson, N. and Barnard, R. Continuum International Group. Forthcoming.
  
• "Merrick's Identification of the Person and Organism." Australasian Journal of Philosophy. (Resubmission Requested).
  
• "Organisms, Artifacts, and Eliminativism." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. (Resubmission Requested).
  
• "Olson's Account of Function and Substance Concepts."
  

Bioethics:

• "Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism and Moral Status." Persons, Moral Worth and Embryos: A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments from Philosophy, Law and Science ed. Steve Napier. Philadelphia: National Catholic Bioethics Center. 2011. 125-144.
  
• "Morally Relevant Potential" with Rose Hershenov. Journal of Medical Ethics 2014.
  
• "Perdure and Murder " American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 2011.
  
• "The Death of a Person." The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31:1. April 2006, 107-20.
  
• "The Problematic Role of 'Irreversibility' in the Definition of Death." Bioethics. 17:1, February 2003, 89-100.
• "An Argument for Limited Human Cloning." Public Affairs Quarterly. 14:3, July 2000, 245-258. Reprinted in What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics, ed. Boonin, D. and Odie, G. Oxford University Press, 2004, 688-693.
• "The Metaphysical Foundations for a More Liberal Organ Procurement Policy." (with Jim Delaney) Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Special Issue on Personal Identity and Bioethics. Forthcoming.
  
• "Animals, Persons and Bioethics." Earlier versions published in The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, 8:1, 2008, 8-11 and Proceedings of the Creighton Society: The Philosophical Association of New York. October 2008.
  
• "Why Consent May Not Be Needed For Organ Procurement." (with Jim Delaney). Target Article. American Journal of Bioethics. 9:8, 2009, 3-10.
  
• "Response to Seven Critics." (with Jim Delaney) American Journal of Bioethics. 9:8, 2009.
  
• "Abortions and Distortions: An Analysis of Morally Irrelevant Factors in Thomson's Violinist Thought Experiment." Social Theory and Practice. 27:1, January 2001, 129-148.
• "Misunderstanding the Moral Equivalence of Killing and Letting Die." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly,8:2, Summer 2008, 239-245.
  
• "Fission and Confusion." Christian Bioethics. 12:3, December 2006, 237-254.
  
• "Death, Dignity and Degradation." Public Affairs Quarterly, 21:1, 2007, 21-36.
  
• "Mandatory Autopsies and Organ Conscriptions" (with Jim Delaney) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 19:4, 2009, 367-391.
  
• "Explaining the Psychological Appeal of Viability as a Cutoff Point." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. 6:4, Winter 2006, 681-686.
  
• "How a Hylomorphic Metaphysics Constrains the Abortion Debate." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. 5:4, 2005, 751-764.
  
• "A More Palatable Epicureanism." American Philosophical Quarterly, 44:2, April 2007, 171-180.
  
• "The 'I'm Personally Opposed to Abortion But?' Argument." American Catholic Philosophical Association Proceedings, 82:2009. Forthcoming May 2010.
  
• Thomistic Principles and Bioethics by Jason Eberl. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:1, Spring 2008, 191-194. (Book Review)
  
• Human Identity and Bioethics by David Degrazia National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 8:4, Winter 2008. (Book Review)
  
• "The Relevance of Metaphysics to the Morality of Abortion." (with Rose Hershenov) Mind. (Resubmission Requested).
  

Philosophy of Religion:

• "Split Brains: No Headache for Soul Theorists" with Adam Taylor. Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 2014.
• "Are There Too Many Hylomorphic Individuals Thinking about this Life and the Next?" Keynote for the Talbot Philosophical Society Graduate Conference.
• "The Metaphysical Problem of Intermittent Existence and the Possibility of Resurrection." Faith and Philosophy. 20:1, January 2003, 24-36.
• "Van Inwagen, Zimmerman and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection." Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. 38, December 2002, 451-469.
  
• "Soulless Organisms? Hylomorphism vs. Animalism." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Forthcoming.
  
• "Personal Identity and Purgatory." Religious Stuides: an International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion. 42, December 2006, 439-451.
  
• Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Souls by Nancy Murphy Religious Studies, 43:2, June 2007, 237-242. (Book Review).
  

Philosophy of Law and Ethics:

• "Restitution and Revenge." Journal of Philosophy. 96:2, February 1999, 79-94.
• "Restitution and Punishment." in New Perspectives on the Ethics of Punishment. eds. Jesper Ryberg, Angelo Corlett Palmgrave. MacMillian Press. Forthcoming.
  
• "Why Must Punishment Be Unusual As Well As Cruel to Be Unconstitutional?" Public Affairs Quarterly. 16:1, January 2002, 77-98.
• "Punishing Attempted Crimes Less Severely than Successes." The Journal of Value Inquiry. 34:4, December 2000, 479-489.
• "A Puzzle about the Demands of Morality." Philosophical Studies. 107:3, February 2002, 275-290.
• "Two Epistemic Accounts for Deliberative Democracy." Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association. 37:2, April 2005, 216-234.