Eric Marcus: Professor of Philosophy, Auburn University

Books

Rational Causation

Harvard University Press, 2012

Reviewed in Analysis (Sara Worley), The Journal of Moral Philosophy (John Schwenkler), The Philosophers’ Magazine (Clayton Littlejohn), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (James A. Montmarquet), Metapsychology (George Tudorie) and Reason Papers (Bernardo Aguilera).

Analysis has also published a précis, Kieran Setiya’s portion of an APA session on the book, and my reply. An interview, part of the New Books in Philosophy podcast series, is here.

Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind

Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Keshav Singh in Mind and by Ryan Simonelli in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. A symposium appeared in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; the précis and replies are listed under Papers below.

Between Thought and Expression: On Making Sense of Oneself

Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Papers

2026 The Space of Reasons as Self-Consciousness Australasian Journal of Philosophy 104 (1): 282–301
2025 Saying What I Think Res Philosophica 102 (3): 221–237
2025 ‘Belief’ and Belief European Journal of Philosophy 33 (1): 220–232
2025 Knowing What You Want in Forms of Knowledge, ed. Lucy Campbell, Oxford University Press
2024 Précis of Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (3): 833–837
2024 Replies to Leite, Shaw, and Campbell Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (3): 858–868
2022 Aesthetic Knowledge (with Keren Gorodeisky) Philosophical Studies 179 (8): 2507–2535
2022 Rational Agency in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency, ed. Luca Ferrero: 118–124
2021 Wanting and Willing European Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 887–899
2021 Anscombe and The Difference Rationality Makes in The Anscombean Mind, ed. Adrian Haddock and Rachael Wiseman: 241–253
2020 Inference as Consciousness of Necessity Analytic Philosophy 61 (4): 304–322
2019 Reconciling Practical Knowledge with Self-Deception Mind 128 (512): 1205–1225
2019 Assertion and Transparent Self-Knowledge (with John Schwenkler) Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (7): 873–889
2018 Practical Knowledge as Knowledge of a Normative Judgment Manuscrito 41 (4): 319–347
2018 Aesthetic Rationality (with Keren Gorodeisky) Journal of Philosophy 115 (3): 113–140 Winner of the 2020 Arthur Danto APA / American Society for Aesthetics Prize
2016 To Believe is to Know that You Believe dialectica 70 (3): 375–405
2013 On the Parallels between Theoretical and Practical Rationality: Reply to Setiya Analysis 73 (3): 512–525
2009 Why There Are No Token States The Journal of Philosophical Research 34: 215–241
2006 Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum The Philosophical Quarterly 56: 321–339
2006 Events, Sortals, and the Mind-Body Problem Synthese 150: 99–129
2005 Mental Causation in a Physical World Philosophical Studies 122: 27–50
2004 Why Zombies are Inconceivable Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (3): 477–490
2001 Mental Causation: Unnaturalized, But Not Unnatural Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (1): 57–83