Daniel Whiting
Note: Many of my papers can be downloaded from my departmental website or philpapers profile.
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"This is an excellent book. It is original, provocative, and sophisticated. The level of scholarship is truly admirable." (Chris Howard, McGill)
"A reader can't fail to appreciate the high level of detail of the analyses, the depth of the discussion and the care with which the author tries to address even the tiniest of issues [...] I would highly recommend [...] this extremely well informed, ambitious and thought-provoking book." (Davide Fassio, Logos & Episteme) "Daniel Whiting's excellent new book [...] makes a number of noteworthy contributions to the philosophical literature on reasons and normativity. [...] Hopefully, this book will receive the attention it deserves." (Stephen Kearns and Daniel Start, Asian Journal of Philosophy) "In his wonderful new book, Whiting defends a novel account of normative reasons [...] Whiting should be lauded for his bold and imaginative intervention into these debates about foundational normative issues." (Clayton Littlejohn, Asian Journal of Philosophy) "This book is ambitious, rigorous, and very carefully argued." (Miriam McCormick, Asian Journal of Philosophy) "The book is swarming with excellent arguments [...] This is an excellent book." (Nathaniel Sharadin, Ethics) "The analysis is meticulous [...] Highly recommended." (CHOICE) |
Edited works
- 'Higher-Order Evidence in Aesthetics', special issue of British Journal of Aesthetics (April 2023).
- Metaepistemology, co-edited with Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Normativity: Epistemic and Practical, co-edited with Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- The Later Wittgenstein on Language (Palgrave, 2010). Review in Philosophical Quarterly.
Selected journal articles
Selected book chapters
Survey articles
Popular philosophy
Critical notices
Selected reviews
- 'Is Cavendish a Naïve Realist?', in European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).
- 'Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion', in Journal of Modern Philosophy (2024) 6: 1-27.
- 'A Range of Replies', in Asian Journal of Philosophy (2024) 3: 1-14. [Contribution to symposium on The Range of Reasons.]
- 'Précis of The Range of Reasons', in Asian Journal of Philosophy (2023) 2: 1-7. [Contribution to symposium on The Range of Reasons.]
- 'Cavendish's Aesthetic Realism', in Philosophers' Imprint (2023) 23: 1-17.
- 'Admiration, Appreciation, and Aesthetic Worth', in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2023) 101: 375-389.
- 'Margaret Macdonald on the Definition of Art', British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2022) 30: 1074-1095.
- 'Aesthetic Reasons and the Demands They (Do Not) Make', in Philosophical Quarterly (2021) 71: 407-427.
- 'Knowledge, Justification, and (a Sort of) Safe Belief', in Synthese (2020) 197: 3593-3609.
- 'Epistemic Worth', in Ergo (2020) 7: 105-129.
- 'Right in Some Respects: Reasons as Evidence', in Philosophical Studies (2018) 175: 2191-2208.
- 'Against Second-Order Reasons', in Noûs (2017) 51: 398-420.
- 'Perspectivism and the Argument from Guidance', co-authored with Jonathan Way, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2017) 20: 361–374.
- 'Reasons and Guidance (or, Surprise Parties and Ice Cream)', co-authored with Jonathan Way, in Analytic Philosophy (2016) 57: 214-235.
- 'If You Justifiably Believe that You Ought to Φ, You Ought to Φ', co-authored with Jonathan Way, in Philosophical Studies (2016) 173: 1873-1895.
- ‘What is the Normativity of Meaning?’, in Inquiry (2016) 59: 219-238. [Selected for Philosophy Editor's Choice 2015.]
- ‘Truth is (Still) the Norm for Assertion: A Reply to Littlejohn’, in Erkenntnis (2015) 80: 1245-1253.
- ‘The Glass is Half Empty: A New Argument for Pessimism about Aesthetic Testimony’, in British Journal of Aesthetics (2015) 55: 91-107.
- 'Knowledge is Not Belief for Sufficient (Objective and Subjective) Reason’, in Logos and Episteme (2015) 6: 237-243.
- ‘Keep Things in Perspective: Reasons, Rationality, and the A Priori’, in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2014) 8: 1-22. Discussion on PEA Soup blog here.
- ‘Truth: the Aim and Norm of Belief’, in Teorema (2013) 13: 121-135. [Invited contribution to The Aim of Belief, special issue, edited by José Zalabardo.]
- ‘Stick to the Facts: On the Norms of Assertion’, in Erkenntnis (2013) 78: 847-867.
- ‘It’s Not What You Said, It’s How You Said It: Slurs and Conventional Implicatures’, in Analytic Philosophy (2013) 54: 364-377. [Invited contribution to a special issue on pejoratives.]
- ‘The Good and the True (or the Bad and the False)’, in Philosophy (2013) 88: 219-242 [Special Commendation in Royal Institute of Philosophy Essay Prize Competition].
- ‘Does Belief Aim (Only) at the Truth?’, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2012) 93: 279-300.
- ‘Epistemic Value and Achievement’, in Ratio (2012) 25: 216-230.
- ‘Leave Truth Alone: on Deflationism and Contextualism’, in European Journal of Philosophy (2011) 19: 607-624.
- ‘Spinoza, the “No Shared Attribute” Thesis and the Principle of Sufficient Reason’, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2011) 19: 543-548.
- ‘Should I Believe the Truth?’, in dialectica (2010) 64: 213-225.
- ‘Is Meaning Fraught with Ought?’, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2009) 90: 535-555.
- ‘On Epistemic Conceptions of Meaning: Use, Meaning and Normativity’, in European Journal of Philosophy (2009) 17: 416-434.
- ‘Meaning Holism and De Re Ascription’, in Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2008) 38: 575-599.
- ‘Conservatives and Racists: Inferential Role Semantics and Pejoratives’, in Philosophia (2008) 36: 375-388.
- ‘Defending Semantic Generalism’, in Analysis (2007) 67: 303-311.
- ‘The Normativity of Meaning Defended’, in Analysis (2007) 67: 133-140.
- ‘Inferentialism, Representationalism and Derogatory Words’, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2007) 15: 191-205.
Selected book chapters
- 'Making the Unity of Normativity Safe', in The Future of Normativity, ed. S. Kirchin (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- 'Guided by the Truth: Objectivism and Perspectivism in Ethics and Epistemology', in Towards an Expensive Epistemology: Norms, Action, and the Social Sphere, ed. A. Floweree and B. Reed (Routledge, forthcoming).
- 'Semantic Normativity, Properly So Called', in Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40, ed. C. Verheggen (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
- 'Wittgenstein's Later Nonsense', in Wittgenstein and Beyond: Language, Mind, and Normativity, ed. C. Pfisterer, N. Rathgeb, and E. Schmidt (Routledge, 2023).
- 'Whither Higher-Order Evidence?', in Higher-Order Evidence: New Essays, ed. M. Skipper and A. Steglich-Petersen (Oxford University Press, 2019).
- 'Don't Take My Word for It: On Beliefs, Affects, Reasons, Values, Rationality, and Aesthetic Testimony', in Art and Belief, ed. H. Bradley, P. Noordhof, and E. Sullivan-Bissett (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- ‘Languages, Language Games, and Forms of Life’, in A Companion to Wittgenstein, ed. H-J. Glock and J. Hyman (Blackwell-Wiley, 2017).
- ‘Reasons for Belief, Reasons for Action, the Aim of Belief, and the Aim of Action’, in Epistemic Norms, ed. C. Littlejohn and J. Turri (Oxford University Press, 2014).
- ‘Nothing but the Truth: On the Norms and Aims of Belief’, in The Aim of Belief, ed. T. Chan (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- ‘Particular and General: Wittgenstein, Linguistic Rules and Context’, in The Later Wittgenstein on Language, ed. D. Whiting (Palgrave, 2010).
Survey articles
- 'Higher-Order Evidence', in Analysis (2020) 80: 789-807.
- ‘The Normativity of Belief’, co-authored with Conor McHugh, in Analysis (2014) 74: 698-713.
- ‘Conceptual Role Semantics’, in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. J. Fieser and B. Dowden (2006; revised 2009).
Popular philosophy
- Is Star Trek a Star Trek film?’, in The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams, ed. P. Bruce (Kentucky University Press, 2014).
- ‘Is There Such a Thing as a Language?’, in Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, ed. W. Irwin and R. Davis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Critical notices
- ‘Between Old and New: Brandom’s Analytic Pragmatism' [Robert Brandom's Between Saying and Doing (Oxford University Press, 2008], in International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2009) 17: 416-434.
- 'Fregean Sense and Anti-Individualism' [Jessica Brown’s Anti-Individualism and Knowledge (MIT Press, 2004)], in Philosophical Books (2007) 48: 233-240.
- ‘Meaning, Norms, and Use' [Donald Davidson’s Truth, Language, and History (Oxford University Press, 2005)], in Philosophical Investigations (2007) 30: 179-187.
Selected reviews
- Veli Mitova (ed.), The Factive Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2018), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (August 29th 2018).
- Allan Hazlett, A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief (Oxford University Press, 2013), in Mind (2016) 499: 918-922,.
- Allan Gibbard, Meaning and Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2012), in European Journal of Philosophy [Reviews Supplement] (2015) 23: 14-18.
- Duncan Pritchard, Adrian Haddock and Alan Millar, The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations (Oxford University Press, 2010), in Philosophical Quarterly (2011) 61: 645-648.
- Simon Blackburn, Practical Tortoise Raising and Other Philosophical Essays (Oxford University Press, 2010), in Times Higher Education (January 6th 2011).
- Anandi Hattiangadi, Oughts and Thoughts: Rule-following and the Normativity of Content (Oxford University Press, 2007), in Philosophical Quarterly (2008) 58: 743-745.
- Martin Kusch, A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules: Defending Kripke’s Wittgenstein (Acumen, 2006), in Mind (2007) 463: 1132-1136.