Eric Marcus

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University

My book, Rational Causation (Harvard University Press 2012), has been 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 Rational Causation and my reply. An interview, part of the New Books in Philosophy podcast series, is here. I am currently working on a second book, tentatively entitled Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind.

Selected Papers:

Reconciling Practical Knowledge with Self-Deception: Mind (forthcoming)
Inference as Consciousness of Necessity: Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming)
Assertion and Transparent Self-Knowledge: Canadian Journal of Philosophy (with John Schwenkler, forthcoming)
Practical Knowledge as Knowledge of a Normative Judgment: Manuscrito 2018; 41, (4): 319-347.
Aesthetic Rationality: Journal of Philosophy (with Keren Gorodeisky) 2018; 115 (3): 113-140
To Believe is to Know that You Believe: dialectica 2016; 70, (3): 375–405
Why There Are No Token States: The Journal of Philosophical Research 2009; 34: 215- 241
Intentionalism and the Imaginability of the Inverted Spectrum: The Philosophical Quarterly 2006; 56: 321-339
Events, Sortals, and the Mind-Body Problem: Synthese 2006; 150: 99-129
Mental Causation in a Physical World: Philosophical Studies 2005; 122: 27-50
Why Zombies are Inconceivable: Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2004; 82 (3): 477-490
Mental Causation: Unnaturalized, But Not Unnatural: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2001; 63(1): 57-83