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<a href="https://www.uab.edu/reporter/know-more/publications/item/10415-5-things-a-philosopher-learned-from-diving-deep-into-neuroscience" title="">overall theme</a> to my writing, it鈥檚 shades of gray. Debates in ethics are often too black and white, either/or. We should <strong>resist false dichotomies and embrace the gray areas</strong>. The problem of factory farming needn鈥檛 be addressed either through strict veganism or eating whatever we want. Neurological disorders and psychiatric categories鈥攍ike autism and substance use disorder鈥攁re useful but can lead us to miss how diverse people鈥檚 experiences are within the same category. Similarly, the division between reason and emotion fails to appreciate that human reasoning is more complex than the caricature of conscious, reliable deliberation. By heeding the nuance, we can get closer to the truth and hopefully find more common ground than tribalism.</p> <p>Two interlocking questions have guided much of my work:</p> <ol class="wp-block-list"> <li style="font-size:14px"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moral psychology</span>: <strong>How trustworthy is our reasoning in ethics and science? </strong>Based on an adequate understanding of the sources of our attitudes and decisions (our <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-moral-psychology-rep.pdf">moral psychology</a> and <a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/MAYTNO-5.pdf">neurobiology</a>), we can assess whether they are biased and mere rationalization. I’ve argued that our moral decisions are largely <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/books/regard-for-reason/">responsive to reasons</a> but that <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-bias-in-science.pdf" title="">motivated reasoning</a> is pervasive in ethics and science. Although human agency is often automatic and unconscious, it is nonetheless <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/books/neuroethics/">diverse and flexible</a>. (My views are thus largely <em>rationalist</em> and <em>non-skeptical</em>.)</li> <li style="font-size:14px"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Moral Progress</span>: <strong>How can we become more virtuous and better equipped to tackle great societal challenges of the 21st century?</strong> The challenges I focus on are artificial intelligence, <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/books/neuroethics/">addiction</a>, <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/king-may-mental-illness.pdf">mental illness</a>, <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-moral-progress-for-better-apes.pdf" title="">political polarization</a>, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2022/02/17/vegetarian-vegan-factory-farming-climate-joshua-may-victor-kumar#_=_" title="">sustainability</a>, and the <a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-kumar-defense-of-reducetarianism.pdf" title="">mistreatment of animals</a>. On my view, humans are deeply social animals who act for reasons. So, although social change requires appreciation of <a href="https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2023/01/why-bother-with-political-arguments/">moral arguments</a>, that takes time and only works when ideas can spread through networks of mutual trust and respect. Effective changes to individual behavior (and the systems in which they operate) should thus combat overconfidence, motivated reasoning, intolerance, and tribalism. (My views here are thus <em>optimistic</em> but <em>incrementalist</em>.)</li> </ol> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Books</h2> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/books/neuroethics/"><em>Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science</em></a> (Oxford University Press, 2023)<br><sub>Named Top 10 Outstanding Academic Title of 2024 by <a href="https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/outstanding-academic-titles-2024-top-10-oat-reviews-part-one/" title="">Choice Reviews</a><br>Reviewed in <a href="https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-book-reviews/neuroethics-agency-in-the-age-of-brain-science" title=""><em>The Biologist</em></a>, <a href="http://www.choicereviews.org/review/10.5860/CHOICE.233673" title=""><em>Choice</em></a>, <em><a href="https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2024/PSCF9-24May.pdf" title="">Perspectives on SCF</a></em>, <em><a href="https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/announcement/view/50" title="">Philosophy & the Mind Sciences</a></em> (symposium)<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"></span> </sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/books/agency-in-mental-disorder/"><em>Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions</em></a>, co-edited w/<a href="http://dr-matt-king.squarespace.com">Matt King</a> (Oxford University Press, 2022)<br><sub>Reviewed in <em><a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/722123">Ethics</a></em>.</sub></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/books/regard-for-reason/">Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind</a> </em>(Oxford University Press, 2018)<br><sub><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-precis-regard-for-reason-bbs.pdf">Summary</a> | <a href="http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2019/07/regard-for-reason-in-moral-mind.html?m=1#more">blog post</a> | Reviewed in <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2019.1604779?af=R"><em>Australasian Journal of Philosophy</em></a>,  <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/precis-of-regard-for-reason-in-the-moral-mind/2AEA73C9DBA92E15D9809E8CC7EE4F17"><em>Behavioral & Brain Sciences </em></a> (symposium), <a href="https://www.choicereviews.org/review/10.5860/CHOICE.212541">CHOICE</a>, <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/704351"><em>Ethics</em></a>, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/heyj.13492?af=R"><em>Heythrop Journal</em></a>, <a href="https://metapsychology.net/index.php/book-review/regard-for-reason-in-the-moral-mind/"><em>Metapsychology</em></a><em>, </em>and <em><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/joshua-may-regard-for-reason-in-the-moral-mind-new-york-oxford-university-press-2018-pp-288-6400/48E473CDB1F03CF52AC021E13EA40925">Utilitas</a></em></sub></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Journal Articles</h2> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-kumar-defense-of-reducetarianism.pdf" title="">Eating Fewer Animals: A Defense of Reducetarianism</a> (forthcoming) <em>Journal of Moral Philosophy</em>. <br><sub>[co-authored w/Victor Kumar]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/MAYPON.pdf" title="">Pr茅cis of Neuroethics</a> (forthcoming) <em>Philosophy & the Mind Sciences</em>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/EngagingCharitableGiving-MS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Engaging Charitable Giving: The Motivational Force of Narrative Versus Philosophical Argument</a> (2024). <em><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2022.2088340">Philosophical Psychology</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored with Eric Schwitzgebel & Chris McVey | <a href="https://osf.io/tm6e7/">data</a> | <a href="https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/07/narrative-stories-are-more-effective.html">blog post</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-moral-progress-for-better-apes.pdf" title="">Moral Progress for Better Apes</a> (2023)<br><em><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-023-09920-2" title="">Biology & Philosophy</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-kumar-moral-psychology-meat-consumption.pdf">Harnessing Moral Psychology to Reduce Meat Consumption</a> (2023) <em><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association/article/harnessing-moral-psychology-to-reduce-meat-consumption/C3DD02CA582919B2BC7F25B126CD9DD5">Journal of the American Philosophical Association</a></em>. <br><sub>[co-authored w/Victor Kumar | <a href="https://youtu.be/2p1P2uvDsVs">5 min video summary</a> | <a href="https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2022/02/17/vegetarian-vegan-factory-farming-climate-joshua-may-victor-kumar#_=_">related op-ed</a> | <a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/11/17/why-is-going-vegetarian-hard-meat">interview w/WBUR</a> | discussions at <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/why-its-hard-to-give-up-meat/">Brink</a>, <a href="https://faunalytics.org/moral-psychology-a-key-ingredient-in-meat-reduction/" title="">Faunalytics</a>, & <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2022/1108/The-gap-between-what-we-believe-and-how-we-eat">CSM</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-moral-rationalism-on-the-brain.pdf">Moral Rationalism on the Brain</a> (2023) <em><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mila.12394">Mind & Language</a></em>.<br><sub>[Best Paper Prize in Philosophy, Italian Society for Neuroethics | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtS9__y7Xao">video abstract</a> | <a href="https://youtu.be/XHYPSJpghCU?t=60">10 min talk</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/han-moral-exemplars.pdf">Which Moral Exemplars Inspire Prosociality?</a> (2022) <em><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2022.2035343">Philosophical Psychology</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/Han, Workman, Scholtens, Dawson, Glenn, & Meindl | <a href="https://osf.io/v5nk7/">data</a> | <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/whats-wrong-with-coveting/">podcast</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-bias-in-science.pdf">Bias in Science: Natural and Social</a> (2021) <em><a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11229-020-02937-0.pdf">Synthese</a></em>. <br><sub>[<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKywWsh8nAo">video abstract</a> | <a href="https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2020/12/motivated-reasoning-in-science.html">blog post</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/earp-et-al-bioxphi.pdf">Experimental Philosophical Bioethics</a> (2020) <em><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23294515.2020.1714792?journalCode=uabr21">AJOB Empirical Bioethics</a></em>. <br><sub>[co-authored w/Earp et al]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-precis-regard-for-reason-bbs.pdf">Pr茅cis of Regard for Reason in the Moral Mind</a> (2019) <em><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/precis-of-regard-for-reason-in-the-moral-mind/2AEA73C9DBA92E15D9809E8CC7EE4F17">Behavioral & Brain Sciences</a></em>.<br><sub>[Target discussion to appear with 21 commentaries and my replies.]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/king-may-mental-illness.pdf">Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness: A Call for Nuance</a> (2018) <em><a href="http://rdcu.be/wrOh">Neuroethics</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/M. King | related <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-free-will-show/id1525456786?i=1000654662715" title="">interview</a> | featured on <a href="http://bookforum.com/blog/14497">Bookforum</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/feltz-may-dde-meta-analysis.pdf">The Means/Side-Effect Distinction in Moral Cognition: A Meta-Analysis</a> (2017) <em><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027717301439">Cognition</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/A. Feltz | <a href="https://osf.io/tmsah/">data</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-emotions-cloning.pdf">Emotional Reactions to Human Reproductive Cloning</a> (2016) <em><a href="https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/42/1/26.full.pdf">Journal of Medical Ethics</a></em>.<br><sub>[Selected as Editor鈥檚 Choice with a <a href="http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/1/1.extract">discussion piece</a> | featured on <a href="http://www.bookforum.com/blog/15446">Bookforum</a> | <a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2016/04/07/how-we-feel-about-human-cloning/">blog post</a> | <a href="https://osf.io/kvdy2/">data</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-disgust-moral-judgment.pdf">Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?</a> (2014) <em><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GCmxammnIfmJEaNkxQXd/full#.Ut8W6mTnYy4">Australasian Journal of Philosophy</a></em>.<br><sub>[<a href="https://philosophyonline.typepad.com/xphi/2013/05/measuring-moral-judgment.html">Related bog post</a> | Featured on <a href="http://bookforum.com/blog/12292">Bookforum</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-concept-free-will.pdf">On the Very Concept of Free Will</a> (2014) <em><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-014-0426-1">Synthese</a></em>.<br><sub>[<a href="https://philosophyonline.typepad.com/xphi/2014/02/mixed-thinking-about-free-will-responsibility.html">Blog discussion</a> | featured on <a href="http://bookforum.com/blog/12942">Bookforum</a> | <a href="https://osf.io/rh698/">data</a> | <a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/SHETFP-3.pdf">replication</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-deontology.pdf">Moral Judgment and Deontology: Empirical Developments</a> (2014) <em><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phc3.12172/abstract">Philosophy Compass</a></em>.<br><sub>[Featured on <a href="http://www.bookforum.com/blog/14087">Bookforum</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/shepard-may-dualism-dbs.pdf">Does Belief in Dualism Protect against Maladaptive Psycho-social Responses to Deep Brain Stimulation?</a> (2014) <em><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/vSD2FukNi33yBiBaTNIz/full">American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/J. Shepard]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/allen-may-privileged-access.pdf">Does Opacity Undermine Privileged Access? </a>(2014) <em><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/43t6bRfDFK9NIWwVt7Gc/full">International Journal of Philosophical Studies</a></em>.<br><sub>[Critical notice, co-authored w/T. Allen]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-moral-skepticism.pdf">Skeptical Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism</a> (2013) <em><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XDGdhDUyYRXpXfvVDTKK/full">Canadian Journal of Philosophy</a></em>.<br><sub>[Featured on <a href="http://bookforum.com/blog/12441">Bookforum</a>; reply <a href="https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jetshy18&div=19&g_sent=1&casa_token=J-TFLioR9DoAAAAA:9MV3DrV11-Hn0nBCrKEIL_MjZwJL2qG6QC1YCeMT16KQX_--Ljhpz59MpDI941xM2dwf_iKFYA&collection=journals">in <em>JESP</em></a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-believing-its-right.pdf">Because I Believe It’s the Right Thing to Do</a> (2013) <em><a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-012-9394-z">Ethical Theory & Moral Practice</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-holton-weakness.pdf">What in the World Is Weakness of Will?</a> (2012) <em><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/0n4038jq0w088874/fulltext.pdf">Philosophical Studies</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/R. Holton | <a href="http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/flickers_of_freedom/2010/05/what-in-the-world-is-weakness-of-will.html">blog discussion</a> | <a href="https://osf.io/2jk48/">data</a> | <a href="https://philosophyonline.typepad.com/xphi/2017/01/the-impact-of-moral-judgment-on-weakness-of-will-attributions.html">replication</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-egoism-merging.pdf">Egoism, Empathy, and Self-Other Merging</a> (2011) <em><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-6962.2011.00055.x/abstract">Southern Journal of Philosophy</a></em>.<br><sub>[<a href="http://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/spindel_2010.php">Emerging Scholar Prize Essay</a>; other contributors include: S. Darwall, J. Deigh, P. Goldie, J. Prinz, M. Slote.]</sub></p> <p><a href="../../wp-content/media/psych-egoism.pdf">Relational Desires and Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism</a> (2011) <em><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00379.x/abstract">European Journal of Philosophy</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/kpi-xphi.pdf">Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, & Knowledge Attributions</a> (2010) <em><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-009-0014-3">Review of Philosophy & Psychology</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/Sinnott-Armstrong, Hull, & Zimmerman |<a href="http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/xphi/2008/09/practical-interests-relevant-alternatives-and-knowledge-attributions.html"> blog discussion</a> | <a href="https://osf.io/3x9sn/">data</a> | replications: <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/BUCKIC">1</a>, <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/FELDYK">2</a>, <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/ROSNAS-3">3</a>]</sub></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Book Chapters</h2> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-neuroscience-of-moral-judgment.pdf">The Neuroscience of Moral Judgment: Empirical and Philosophical Developments</a> (2022) In <em><a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5258/Neuroscience-and-Philosophy">Neuroscience & Philosophy</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/Workman, Haas, & Han | <a href="https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/neuroscience-and-philosophy/">review</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/kumar-may-debunk-moral-beliefs.pdf">How to Debunk Moral Beliefs</a> (2019) In <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Methodology-and-Moral-Philosophy/Suikkanen-Kauppinen/p/book/9781138322097">Methodology and Moral Philosophy</a></em>.<br><sub>[co-authored w/V. Kumar | <a href="https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/methodology-and-moral-philosophy-2/">review</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-limits-of-emotion-in-moral-judgment.pdf">The Limits of Emotion in Moral Judgment</a> (2018) In <em><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-many-moral-rationalisms-9780198797074?cc=us&lang=en&#">The Many Moral Rationalisms</a></em>.<br><sub>[<a href="https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-many-moral-rationalisms/">review</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-limits-of-appealing-to-disgust.pdf">The Limits of Appealing to Disgust</a> (2018) In <em><a href="http://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/the_moral_psychology_of_disgust/3-156-8fe86a52-7e97-42f9-8373-2eeb2b894f72">The Moral Psychology of Disgust</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-cynical-virtue.pdf">Getting Less Cynical about Virtue</a> (2017) In <em><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/moral-psychology-volume-5">Moral Psychology, Vol. 5: Virtue & Character</a></em>.<br><sub>[commentary on C. D. Batson]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-repugnance-error.pdf">Repugnance as Performance Error: The Role of Disgust in Bioethical Intuitions</a> (2016) In <em><a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754855.001.0001/acprof-9780198754855-chapter-3">The Ethics of Human Enhancement</a></em>.<br><sub>[<a href="https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-ethics-of-human-enhancement-understanding-the-debate/">review</a>]</sub></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Reference Works</h2> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/kumar-may-moral-reasoning-moral-progress.pdf">Moral Reasoning and Moral Progress</a> (forthcoming) In D. Copp & C. Rosati (eds.) <em>The</em> <em>Oxford Handbook of Meta-ethics</em>. Oxford University Press.<br><sub>[co-authored w/Victor Kumar | <a href="https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2023/01/why-bother-with-political-arguments/">related op-ed</a>]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-kumar-moral-reasoning-emotion.pdf">Moral Reasoning and Emotion</a> (2018) <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Moral-Epistemology/Zimmerman-Jones-Timmons/p/book/9781138816121"><em>The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology</em></a><br><sub>[co-authored w/V. Kumar]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-empathy-intersubjectivity.pdf">Empathy and Intersubjectivity</a> (2017) <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Philosophy-of-Empathy/Maibom/p/book/9781138855441"><em>The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy</em></a> <br><sub>[The volume won CHOICE’s <a href="https://www.choice360.org/librarianship/podcast/episode-72">Outstanding Academic Title</a> of the Year 2018]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-moral-psychology-rep.pdf">Empirical Work in Moral Psychology</a> (2017) <a href="https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/moral-psychology-empirical-work-in/"><em>Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy</em></a>. <br><sub>[Updated and expanded on 2012 version.]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-egoism-iep.pdf">Psychological Egoism</a> (2011) <a href="http://www.iep.utm.edu/psychego/"><em>Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy</em></a></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Op-eds & Public-facing Articles</h2> <p><a href="https://www.al.com/opinion/2024/02/guest-opinion-a-ban-on-lab-grown-meat-would-take-a-bite-out-of-freedom.html">A Ban on Lab-grown Meat Would Take a Bite Out of Freedom</a> <br><em>AL.com</em> (2024) [co-authored w/Victor Kumar]</p> <p><a href="https://psyche.co/ideas/what-can-we-learn-from-those-who-have-a-moral-change-of-heart" title="">What Can We Learn from Those Who Have a Moral Change of Heart?</a> <em>Psyche</em> (2023)</p> <p><a href="https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2023/08/can-relationship-science-teach-us-to-talk-politics-again/">Can Relationship Science Teach Us to Talk Politics Again?</a> <br><em>The Prindle Post</em> (2023)</p> <p><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/01/magazine/thing-that-could-finally-get-us-eat-less-meat-is-meat/?event=event12">The Thing that Could Finally Get Us to Eat Less Meat is鈥擬eat</a><br><em>The Boston Globe</em> (2023) [co-authored w/Victor Kumar]</p> <p><a href="https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2023/01/why-bother-with-political-arguments/">Why Bother with Political Arguments?</a> <br><em>The Prindle Post</em> (2023) [co-authored w/Victor Kumar]</p> <p><a href="https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2022/02/17/vegetarian-vegan-factory-farming-climate-joshua-may-victor-kumar#_=_">You Don’t Have to be a Vegan to Save the Earth</a>.<br><em>WBUR’s Cognoscenti</em> (2022) [co-authored w/V. Kumar]</p> <p><a href="https://www.al.com/opinion/2019/11/the-impossible-whopper-reviewed.html">The Impossible Whopper, Reviewed</a>. <br><em>Al.com</em> (2019)</p> <p><a href="http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/05/why_do_politicians_appeal_to_o.html">Why Do Politicians Appeal to Our Disgust?</a> <br><em>Al.com</em> (2016)</p> <p><a href="http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/whats_the_real_threat_to_famil.html">What’s the Real Threat to Family Values? A Workforce that Devalues Parenting</a> <br><em>The Birmingham News </em>(2015)</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Book Reviews & Commentaries</h2> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-review-nichols-rational-rules.pdf">Review of <em>Rational Rules</em> <em>: A Theory of Moral Learning</em> by Shaun Nichols</a>, in <em><a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723253">Ethics</a></em> 133, 3 (2023): 434-440.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-doris-commentary-bbs.pdf">A Limited Skeptical Threat</a>, commentary on John Doris’s <em>Talking to Our Selves</em> (2018) <em><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/limited-skeptical-threat/E04CE90EC3AF471EF90A8AB2A97D2360/share/043c9ca6ad6247891bf6f7238e74a1c47addf59f">Behavioral & Brain Sciences</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-review-nichols-bound.pdf">Review of <em>Bound: Essays on Free Will & Responsibility</em> by Shaun Nichols</a> (2016) <em><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2015.1084344">Australasian Journal of Philosophy</a></em>.<br><sub>[More detailed thoughts in <a href="http://philosophycommons.typepad.com/xphi/2015/08/have-free-will-and-lack-it.html">this blog post</a>.]</sub></p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-review-just-babies.pdf">Review of <em>Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil</em> by Paul Bloom</a> (2014) <em><a href="https://metapsychology.net/index.php/book-review/just-babies/">Metapsychology</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="../../wp-content/media/xphi-review.pdf">Review of <em>Experimental Philosophy</em> ed. by Knobe & Nichols</a> (2010) <em><a href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~db=all~content=a927940497~fulltext=713240930">Philosophical Psychology</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-review-holton.pdf">Review of <em>Willing, Wanting, Waiting</em> by Richard Holton</a> (2009) <em><a href="https://metapsychology.net/index.php/book-review/willing-wanting-waiting/">Metapsychology</a></em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.joshdmay.com/wp-content/media/may-review-vbw.pdf">Review of <em>A Very Bad Wizard: Morality behind the Curtain</em> by Tamler Sommers</a> (2009) <em>Metapsychology</em>.<br><sub>[Featured on <a href="http://www.aldaily.com/"><em>Arts & Letters Daily</em></a>]</sub></p> <h2>In Progress</h2> <p>A book project on the end of factory farming (under review, w/Victor Kumar)</p> <p>Journal article on neurodiversity (under review)</p> <p>A chapter on moral reasoning about human rights (drafted, w/Kendall Baker)</p> <p>A paper on assessing moral cognition in AI (drafted)</p> <p>A public philosophy piece on neurodiversity (drafted)</p> <p>A chapter on tribalism and polarization (early stages)</p> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> <div id="secondary"> <div id="primary-sidebar" class="primary-sidebar widget-area" 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