Articles & Book Chapters
2010s
- “The Problem of Religious Language”, in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd edition, edited by Chad Meister and Paul Copan, New York: Routledge, 2013 [2007], pp. 477-489.
- “A Moral Case for Socialism”, in Arguing About Political Philosophy, edited by Matt Zwolinski, London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 387-393.
- “Meta-Philosophy, Once Again”, Philo, vol. 15, no. 1, 2012, pp. 55-96. [full unpublished version]
- “Rescuing Political Theory From Fact-Insensitivity”, Socialist studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012, pp. 216-245.
- “Secularism and Theology: Remarks on a Form of Naturalistic Humanism”, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 13, 2010, pp. 109 - 126.
- “Un gouvernement mondial: un impératif cosmopolite”, translated in French by Ryoa Chung and Genevieve Nootens, in Le cosmopolitisme: enjeux et débats contemporains, edited by Ryoa Chung and Genevieve Nootens, Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2010, pp. 119-149. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
2000s
- “On There Being Wide Reflective Equilibria: Why it is Important to Put it in the Plural”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 26, no. 2, 2008, pp. 219-251. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich”, in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, edited by Tom Flynn, Westminster, MD: Prometheus Books, 2007, pp. 481-485.
- “Metaphilosophy, Pragmatism and a Kind of Critical Theory: Kai Nielsen and Richard Rorty”, Philosophical Papers, vol. 36, no. 1, 2007, pp. 119-150. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Reply to Jeffrey Stout”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 28-36.
- “Reply to Nicholas Wolterstorff”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 51-62.
- “Reply to Anthony Kenny”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 70-79.
- “Reply to Alain Voizard”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 87-92.
- “Reply to Matthias Fritsch”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 111-121.
- “Reply to Richard Rorty”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 131-142.
- “Reply to Cheryl Misak”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 155-160.
- “Reply to Robert Sinclair”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 173-180.
- “Reply to Andrew Levine and David Schweickart on Marx and Marxism”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 201-213.
- “Reply to Steven Lukes, Joseph McCarney, and Koula Mellos”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 201-213.
- “Reply to Idil Boran”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 271-278.
- “Reply to Norman Daniels”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 294-305.
- “Reply to Jocelyne Couture”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 319-325.
- “Reply to Richard Miller”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 336-344.
- “Reply to Jon Mandle”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 356-362.
- “Reply to Kok-Chor Tan”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 375-381.
- “Reply to Michel Seymour”, in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, edited by Michel Seymour and Mathias Fritsch, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2007, pp. 393-398.
- “The Global Crises of Values: The Poverty of Moral Philosophy”, in Philosophy and World Problems, edited by John McMurtry, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of UNESCO, Oxford, England: Eolss Publishers, 2007. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “The Problem of Religious Language”, in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Chad Meister and Paul Copan, New York: Routledge, 2007, pp. 477-489. [also published The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd edition, 2013]
- “There Is No Dilemma of Dirty Hands”, in Politics and Morality, edited by Igor Primoratz, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 20-37.
- “Globalization as a Tool for Imperialism”, Dalhousie Review, vol. 86, no. 2, 2006, pp. 183-193.
- “Is to Understand to Forgive or at Least Not to Blame?”, in Judging and Understanding, edited by Pedro A. Tabensky, Aldershot, NH: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 175-198.
- “Response to My Critics”, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 1, 2006, pp. 147-158.
- “Richard Rorty”, in A Companion to Pragmatism, edited by John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis, Chichester, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 127-138.
- “Cosmopolitanism”, South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 4, 2005, pp. 273-288.
- “Cosmopolitanism and the Compatriot Priority Principle”, in The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, edited by G. Brock and H. Brighouse, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 180–195. (with Jocelyne Couture)
- “Pragmatism as Atheoreticism: Richard Rorty”, Contemporary Pragmatism, vol. 2, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-33.
- “Reflective Equilibrium”, in The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, 2nd Edition, edited by Patricia H. Werhane and R. Edward Freeman, Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 546-549.
- “Remarks on Bela Szabados’s ‘After Religion? Reflections on Nielsen’s Wittgenstein’”, Dialogue, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 771-796.
- “Rorty”, in The World’s Great Philosophers, edited by Robert Arrington, Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 267-271.
- “On the Moral Justifiability of Terrorism (State and Otherwise)”, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2003, pp. 427-444.
- “Toward a Liberal Socialist Cosmopolitan Nationalism”, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, 2003, pp. 437-463.
- “Cooking with Kai”, Gnosis, vol. 6, no. 1, 2002, pp. 1-17. [interview with Kai Nielsen]
- “Les États-nations sont-ils des choses du passé? Le défi de la mondialisation”, in États-Nations, Multinations et Organisations Supranationales, edited by Michel Seymour, Montreal: Liber, 2002, pp. 175-192.
- “Atheism”, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 98-102.
- “Engels”, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 460-462.
- “Moral Point of View”, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1141-1145.
- “Murphy, Arthur Edward”, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1193-1196.
- “Revolution”, in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1494-1498.
- “Socialism and Egalitarian Justice”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 19, 2001, pp. 367-390.
- “Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinians on Religion”, in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Robert Arrington and Mark Addis, London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 137-166.
- “Cosmopolitan Nationalism”, in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, edited by N. Miscevic, Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2000, pp. 299–319.
- “Socialism, Nationalism, and the Case of Quebec”, Rethinking Marxism, vol. 12, no. 4, 2000, pp. 129-147.
- “There is No Dilemma of Dirty Hands”, in Cruelty and Deception, edited by Paul Rynard and David Shugarman, Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2000, pp. 139-155.
1990s
- “Cosmopolitan Nationalism”, The Monist, vol. 82, no. 3, 1999, pp. 446-468. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Le nationalisme cosmopolitique”, in Nationalité, citoyenneté et solidarité, edited by Michel Seymour, Montreal: Liber, 1999, pp. 169-196.
- “Moral Point of View Theories”, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, vol. 31, no. 93, 1999, pp. 105-116.
- “Taking Rorty Seriously”, Dialogue, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer 1999, pp. 503-518.
- “Two Options for a Sovereign Quebec”, Constitutional Forum, vol. 10, no. 2, 1999, pp. 38-44.
- “Atheism”, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 1998 [1965]. [online]
- “Cosmopolitanism, Universalism and Particularism in an Age of Nationalism and Multiculturalism”, Philosophic Exchange, vol. 29, no. 1, 1998, pp. 3-38.
- “Is Global Justice Impossible?”, Res Publica, vol. 4, no. 2, 1998, pp. 131-166. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Justice and the Modes of Production: Allen Wood’s ‘The Marxian Critique of Justice’ Revisited”, in Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held, edited by Joram G. Heber and Mark S. Halfon, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, pp. 267-281. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Liberal Nationalism and Secession”, in National Self-Determination and Secession, edited by Margaret Moore, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 103-133.
- “Liberal Nationalism, Liberal Democracies, and Secession”, University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 1998, pp. 253-295. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Liberal Reasonability a Critical Tool? Reflections After Rawls”, Dialogue, vol. 37, no. 4, Fall 1998, pp. 739-759.
- “Socialism and Nationalism”, Imprints, vol. 2, no. 3, 1998, pp. 208-222.
- “Afterword: Liberal Nationalism Both Cosmopolitan and Rooted”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 22, sup. 1, 1997, pp. 579-662. (with Jocelyne Couture and Michel Seymour)
- “Naturalistic Explanations of Religion”, Studies in Religion, vol. 26, no. 4, 1997, pp. 441-466.
- “Naturalistic Explanations of Theistic Belief”, in A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, edited by Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, pp. 402-409.
- “Against Partition”, Dalhousie Review, vol. 76, no. 2, 1996, pp. 217-222.
- “Cultural Nationalism, Neither Ethnic nor Civic”, The Philosophical Forum, vol. 28, no. 1-2, 1996, pp. 42-52.
- “Is Religion the Opium of the People? Marxianism and Religion”, in Can Religion be Explained Away?, edited by D.Z. Phillips, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 177-123.
- “Liberal Nationalism both Cosmopolitan and Rooted”, in Rethinking Nationalism, edited by Jocelyne Couture, Kai Nielsen and Michel Seymour, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1996, pp. 463–504. (with Jocelyne Couture)
- “Radical Egalitarianism Revisited: On Going beyond the Difference Principle”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 15, edited by Marcia Valiante, 1996, pp. 121-158. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “So What's So Scary? A Reply to Robert M. Martin”, Dalhousie Review, vol. 76, no. 2, 1996, pp. 226-228.
- “There Is No Dilemma of Dirty Hands”, South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 1-7.
- “Wide Reflective Equilibrium without Uniqueness”, Iyyun, vol. 45, 1996, pp. 23-36.
- “Introduction: The Ages of Metaethics”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, suppl. vol. 21, 1996, pp. 1-30. (with Jocelyne Couture)
- “Afterword: Whither Moral Philosophy?”, in On the Relevance of Metaethics: New Essays on Metaethics, edited by Jocelyne Couture and Kai Nielsen, Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 1995, pp. 273-337. (with Jocelyne Couture)
- “Can Anything be Beyond Human Understanding?”, in Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief, edited by T. Tessin and M. von der Ruhr, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-185.
- “Reconceptualizing Civil Society for Now: Some Somewhat Gramscian Turnings”, in Toward a Global Civil Society, edited by Michael Walzer, Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995, pp. 41-67.
- “Anti-Philosophy Philosophy”, Dialogue, vol. 64, 1994, pp. 149-158.
- “Atheism without Anger or Tears”, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, vol. 23, no.2, 1994, pp. 193-209.
- “God and the Crisis of Modernity”, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, vol. 23, no. 2, 1994, pp. 143-158.
- “How to Proceed in Philosophy: Remarks After Habermas”, Thesis Eleven, vol. 37, no. 1, 1994, pp. 10-28.
- “How to Proceed in Social Philosophy: Contextualist Justice and Wide Reflective Equilibrium”, Queen’s Law Journal, vol. 20, 1994, pp. 89-137.
- “Jolting the Career of Reason: Absolute Idealism and Other Rationalisms Reconsidered”, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 2, 1994, pp. 113-140.
- “Justice as a Kind of Impartiality”, Laval théologique et philosophique, vol. 50, no. 3, 1994, pp. 511-529.
- “Philosophy within the Limits of Wide Reflective Equilibrium Alone,” Iyyun, vol. 43, 1994, pp. 3-41.
- “Reconsidering the Platonic Conception of Philosophy”, International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 26, 1994, pp. 51-71.
- “Rights-Based Ethics: A Critique and Replacement”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 14, 1994, pp. 162-194.
- “Analytical Marxism: A Form of Critical Theory”, Erkenntnis, vol. 39, 1993, pp. 1-21.
- “Analytical Marxism Streamlined: A Minimal Program”, The Brock Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1993, pp. 79-89.
- “Egoism and Relativism”, in Perspectives in Philosophy, edited by Michael Boylan, Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993, pp. 1-9.
- “Formalists and Informalists: Some Methodological Turnings”, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, vol. 25, no. 73, 1993, pp. 71-81.
- “Meta-Comments on the Very Idea of a Critical Theory: Raymond Guess and the Idea of a Critical Theory”, Disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, 1993, pp. 109-132.
- “Methods of Ethics: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and a Kind of Consequentialism”, The Windsor Book of Access to Justice, vol. 43, 1993, pp. 3-42.
- “Peirce, Pragmatism and the Challenge of Postmodernism”, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, vol. 29, no. 4, 1993), pp. 513-560.
- “Perspectivism and the Absolute Conception of the World”, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, vol. 25, no. 74, 1993, pp. 105-116.
- “Philosophy and Weltanschauung”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 21, 1993, pp. 179-186.
- “Relativism and Wide Reflective Equilibrium”, The Monist, vol. 76, no. 3, 1993, pp. 316-332.
- “Secession: The Case of Quebec”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 1, 1993, pp. 29-43.
- “The Confirmation of Critical Theory: The Role of Reflectiveness”, Human Studies, vol. 16, no. 4, 1993, pp. 381-397.
- “What is Philosophy?”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4, 1993, pp. 389-404.
- “À la recherche d’une perspective émancipatrice : l’équilibre réfléchi large et le cercle herméneutique”, translated in French by Jocelyne Couture, in Éthique et rationalité, edited by Jocelyne Couture, Liège, Belgium, Pierre Mardaga Éditeur, 1992, pp. 51-71.
- “Does Religious Skepticism Rest on a Mistake?”, in Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology, edited by R. Douglas Geivett and Brendan Sweetman, 1992, pp. 116-130.
- “Elster’s Marxism”, Philosophical Papers, vol. 21, no. 2, 1992, pp. 83-106.
- “Global Justice, Capitalism, and the Third World”, in International Justice and the Third World, edited by Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins, London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 17-34.
- “Le fardeau de la preuve”, translated in French by Geneviève Sicotte, Philosophiques, vol. 19, no. 2, 1992, pp. 169-190.
- “On the Status of Critical Theory”, Interchange, vol. 23, no. 3, 1992, pp. 265-284.
- “Rights and Consequences: It All Depends”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 7, no. 1, 1992, pp. 63-92.
- “Can there be Justified Philosophical Beliefs?”, Iyyun, no. 40, 1991, pp. 235-70.
- “Capitalism, Socialism, and Justice: Reflections on Rawls’ Theory of Justice”, in Equality and Liberty, edited by J. Angelo Corlett, London: Macmillan, 1991, pp. 214-241.
- “Does a Marxian Critical Theory of Society Need a Moral Theory?”, Radical Philosophy, vol. 59, 1991, pp. 21-26.
- “Farewell to the Tradition: Doing Without Metaphysics and Epistemology”, Philosophia, vol. 20, no. 4, 1991, pp 363–376
- “Rawls and the Socratic Ideal”, Analyse & Kritik, vol. 13, no. 1, 1991, pp. 67-93.
- “Rorty”, in A Companion to the Philosophers, edited by Robert L. Arrington, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1991, pp. 473-476.
- “The Very Idea of a Critical Theory”, Ratio, vol. 5, no. 2, 1991, pp. 124-145.
- “Critical Theory as Distinct from Scientific Theory: Its Distinctive Features and Import”, Arab Philosophical Journal, vol. 1, no. 1/2, 1990, pp. 1-21.
- “John Rawls’ New Methodology: An Interpretive Account”, The McGill Law Journal, vol. 35, 1990, pp. 572-590.
- “Justice, Autonomy and Laissez Faire”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 10, 1990, pp. 400-421.
- “Liberal and Socialist Egalitarianism”, Laval théologique et philosophique, vol. 46, no. 1, 1990, pp. 81–96.
- “On There Being Philosophical Knowledge”, Theoria, vol. 56, no. 3, 1990, pp. 193-225.
- “Rawls Revising Himself: A Political Conception of Justice”, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, no. 76, 1990, pp. 439-56.
- “State Authority and Legitimation”, in On Political Obligation, edited by Paul Harris, London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 218-251.
- “Why Is There a Problem About Political Obligation?”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 24, 1990, pp. 235-240.
1980s
- “A Moral Case for Socialism”, Critical Review, vol. 3, no. 3/4, 1989, pp. 542-553. [also published in Arguing About Political Philosophy, 2012]
- “Afterword: Remarks on the Roots of Progress”, in Analyzing Marxism: New Essays on Analytical Marxism, edited by Robert Ware and Kai Nielsen, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1989, pp. 497-539.
- “Capitalism, State Bureaucratic Socialism and Freedom”, Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 38, no. 4, 1989, pp. 291-297.
- “Conceivability and Immortality: A Response to John Hick”, in Death and Afterlife, edited by Stephen T. Davis, London: Palgrave McMillan, 1989, pp. 197-203.
- “Equality of Condition and Self-Ownership”, in Éthique et droits fondamentaux/Ethics and Basic Rights, edited by Guy Lafrance, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1989, pp. 81-99.
- “God and the Soul: A Response to Paul Badham”, in Death and Afterlife, edited by Stephen T. Davis, London: Palgrave McMillan, 1989, pp. 53-64.
- “God, the Soul, and Coherence: A Response to Davis and Hick”, in Death and Afterlife, edited by Stephen T. Davis, London: Palgrave McMillan, 1989, pp. 149-153.
- “Intellectuals and Partisanship”, Interchange, vol. 20, no. 4, 1989, pp. 9-15.
- “Justice, Equality and Needs”, Dalhousie Review, vol. 69, no. 2, 1989, pp. 211-227.
- “Liberal and Socialist Egalitarianism”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol. 15, no. 1, 1989, pp. 75-93.
- “Marxism and Arguing for Justice”, Social Research, vol. 56, no. 3, 1989, pp. 713-739.
- “On Being Ontologically Unserious”, in Cause, Mind and Reality: Essays Honoring C.B. Martin, edited by J. Heil, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Degruyter, 1989, pp. 235-259.
- “Reflective Equilibrium and the Transformation of Philosophy”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 20, no. 3/4, 1989, pp. 235-246.
- “The Concept of Ideology: Some Marxist and Non Marxist Conceptualizations”, Rethinking Marxism, vol. 2, no. 4, 1989, pp. 146-174.
- “The Faces of Immortality”, in Death and Afterlife, edited by Stephen T. Davis, London: Palgrave McMillan, 1989, pp. 1-35.
- “Arguing about Justice: Marxist Immoralism and Marxist Moralism”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 17, no. 3, 1988, pp. 212-234.
- “Belief, Unbelief and the Parity Argument”, Sophia, vol. 27, no. 3, 1988. pp 2-12.
- “In Defense of Wide Reflective Equilibrium”, in Ethics and Justification, edited by Douglas Odegard, Edmonton: Academic Publishers, 1988, pp. 19-37.
- “Marx and the Enlightenment Project”, Critical Review, vol. 2, no. 4, 1988, pp. 59-75.
- “Marx on Justice: A Critique of Marxist Amoralism”, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Lawand Social Philosophy, vol. 74, no. 1, 1988, pp. 1-32.
- “Marx on Justice: The Tucker-Wood Thesis Revisited”, Toronto Law Journal, vol. 38, 1988, pp. 28-63.
- “Marxism and the Rejection of Morality”, Theoria, vol. 54, no. 2, 1988, pp. 102-128.
- “On Marx Not Being an Egalitarian”, Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 35, no. 4, 1988, pp. 287-326.
- “Radically Egalitarian Justice”, in Legal Theory Meets Legal Practice, edited by Anne Bayefsky, Edmonton: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1988, pp. 53-69.
- “The Withering Away of the Tradition”, Philosophia, vol. 18, no. 2/3, 1988, pp. 211-226.
- “World Government, Security, and Global Justice”, in Problems of International Justice, edited by Steven Luper-Foy, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988, pp. 263-282.
- “Afterword: Feminist Theory - Some Twistings and Turnings”, in Science, Morality, and Feminist Theory, edited by Marsha Hanen and Kai Nielsen, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 13, 1987, pp. 383-418.
- “Alienation and Work”, in Moral Rights in the Workplace, edited by Gertrude Ezorsky and James W. Nickel, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987, pp. 28-34.
- “Can There be Progress in Philosophy?”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 18, no. 1, 1987, pp. 1-30.
- “Coming to Grips with Marxist Anti-Moralism”, The Philosophical Forum, vol. 19, no. 1, 1987, pp. 1-22.
- “God, Disembodied Existence and Incoherence”, Sophia, vol. 26, no. 3, 1987, pp. 27-52.
- “Linguistic Philosophy and ‘The Meaning of Life’”, in Religion and Human Purpose, edited by William Horosz and Tad Clements, Boston, Ma: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987, pp. 3-29.
- “On the Poverty of Moral Philosophy: Running a Bit with the Tucker-Wood Thesis”, Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 33, no. 2, 1987, pp. 147-164.
- “Rejecting Egalitarianism: On Miller's Nonegalitarian Marx”, Political Theory, vol. 15, no. 3, 1987, pp. 411-423.
- “Searching for an Emancipatory Perspective: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Hermeneutical Circle”, in Anti-foundationalism and Practical Reasoning, edited by Evan Simpson, Edmonton, AB: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1987, pp. 143-163.
- “Survival and ‘the Ecological Hypothesis’”, in Environmental Ethics, edited by Raymond Bradley and Stephen Dugid, Burnaby, BC: Institute for the Humanities; Simon Fraser University, 1987, pp. 135-175.
- “The Generality of Norms and Miller's Marx”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 17 no. 2, 1987, pp. 233-238.
- “Undistorted Discourse, Ethnicity, and the Problem of Self-Definition», in Ethnicity and Language, edited by Winston A. Van Horne, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin System, 1987, pp. 16-36.
- “Cultural Identity and Self-Definition”, Human Studies, vol. 10, no. 3/4, 1987, pp. 383-390.
- “Marx and Moral Ideology”, African Philosophical Inquiry, vol. 1, 1987, pp. 71-86.
- “Marxism and the Moral Point of View”, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4, 1987, pp. 295-306.
- “Philosophy as Critical Theory”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 61, no 1, 1987, pp. 89-108.
- “Arguing for Equality”, Philosophic Exchange, vol. 17, no. 1, 1986, pp. 5-23.
- “Having at Equality Again: A Reply to Boulad-Ayoub and Cooper”, Dialogue, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 1986, pp. 311-326.
- “How to Be Sceptical about Philosophy”, Philosophy, vol. 61, no. 235, Jan. 1986, pp. 83-93.
- “Marx, Engels and Lenin on Justice: The Critique of the Gotha Programme”, Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 32, no. 1, 1986, pp. 23-63.
- “Marxism, Morality and Moral Philosophy”, in New Directions in Ethics: The Challenge of Applied Ethics, edited by Joseph P. DeMarco, Richard M. Fox and Michael D. Bayles, 1986.
- “Rorty and the Self-Image of Philosophy”, International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 18, 1986, pp. 19-28.
- “Scientism, Pragmatism and the Fate of Philosophy”, Inquiry, vol. 29, no. 3, 1986, pp. 277-304.
- “Some Moral Mythologies”, Philosophia, vol. 16, no. 2, 1986, pp. 119-135.
- “Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethic”, in Virtue and Medicine, edited by Earl E. Shelp, Philosophy and Medicine, vol 17, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985, pp. 133-150.
- “Cultural Pessimism and the Setting aside of Marxism”, Analyse & Kritik, vol. 7, no. 1, 1985, pp. 75-100.
- “Historical Materialism, Ideology and Ethics”, Studies in Soviet Thought, no. 29, 1985, pp. 47-63.
- “If Historical Materialism Is True, Does Morality Totter?”, Philosophy of Social Sciences, vol. 15, 1985, pp. 389-407.
- “Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory: How Should We Approach Questions of Global Justice?”, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 3, 1985, pp. 33-41.
- “On Finding One’s Feet in Philosophy: From Wittgenstein to Marx”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, 1985, pp. 1-11. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “On Sticking with Considered Judgments in Wide Reflective Equilibrium”, Philosophia, vol. 13, no. 3/4, 1985, pp. 316-321.
- “Universalizability and the Commitment to Impartiality”, in Morality and Universality, edited by Nelson Potter and Mark Timmons, Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1985, pp. 91-101.
- “Against Ethical Rationalism”, in Gewirth’s Ethical Rationalism: Critical Essays with a Reply by Alan Gewirth, edited by Edward Regis, 1984, pp. 59-83.
- “Challenging Analytic Philosophy”, Free Inquiry, vol. 4, no. 4, 1984, pp. 52-53.
- “On Liberty and Equality: A Case for Radical Egalitarianism”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 4, 1984, pp. 121-142.
- “On Mucking Around About God: Some Methodological Animadversions”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 16, no. 2, 1984, pp. 111-122.
- “On Not Being at Sea About Indoctrination—A Response to Thiessen”, Interchange, vol. 15, no. 4, 1984, pp. 68-73.
- “Global Justice, Power, and the Logic of Capitalism”, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, vol. 16, no. 48, 1984, pp. 35-51.
- “Global Justice, Capitalism, and the Third World”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 2, 1984, pp. 228-241.
- “A Marxist Conception of Ideology”, in Ideology, Philosophy and Politics, edited by A. Parel, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983, pp. 139-161.
- “Christianity As Ideology”, Sophia, vol. 22, no. 2, 1983, pp. 33-40.
- “Emancipatory Social Science and Social Critique”, in Ethics, the Social Sciences and Policy Analysis, edited by Daniel Callahan and Bruce Jennings, New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1983, pp. 113-157.
- “Engels on Morality and Moral Theorizing”, Studies in Soviet Thought, no 26, 1983, pp. 229-248.
- “Hobbesist and Humean Alternatives to a Religious Morality”, International Journal of Philosophy, no. 14, pp. 33-47.
- “On Taking Historical Materialism Seriously”, Dialogue, vol. 22, no 2, 1983, pp. 319-38.
- “Formulating Egalitarianism: Animadversions on Berlin”, Philosophia, vol. 13, no. 3/4, 1983, pp. 299-315.
- “Global Justice and the Imperatives of Capitalism”, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 80, no. 10, 1983, pp. 608-610.
- “Skepticism and Belief: A Reply to Benoît Garceau”, Dialogue, vol. 22, no. 3, Sept. 1983, pp. 391-403.
- “Abstract of Comments: Baier on the Link between Immorality and Irrationality”, Noûs, vol. 16, no. 1, 1982, pp. 91-92.
- “Considered Judgments Again”, Human Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 1982, pp. 104-118.
- “Morality and Ideology: Some Radical Critiques”, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1/2, 1982, pp. 189-254.
- “On the Need to Politicise Political Morality: World Hunger and Moral Obligation”, in Ethics, Economics and the Law, edited by J.R. Pennock and J.W. Chapman, New York: New York University Press, 1982, pp. 253-267.
- “Political Violence and Ideological Mystification”, Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 13, 1982, pp. 25-33.
- “On Needing a Moral Theory: Rationality, Considered Judgments and the Grounding of Morality”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 13, no. 2, 1982, pp. 97-116.
- “Capitalism, Socialism, and Justice”, in And Justice for All, edited by Tom Regan and Donald Van De Veer, Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1982, pp. 264-286.
- “God and the Basis of Morality”, Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 10, no. 2, 1982, pp. 335-350.
- “Sociological Knowledge: Winch, Marxism and Verstehen Revisited”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 42, no. 4, 1982, pp. 465-491.
- “Wittgensteinian Fideism”, in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, edited by Steven M. Cahn and David Shatz, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
- “A Rationale for Egalitarianism”, Social Research, vol. 48, no. 2, 1981, pp. 260-276.
- “Christian Empiricism”, The Journal of Religion, vol. 61, no. 2, 1981, pp. 146-167.
- “Impediments to Radical Egalitarianism”, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, 1981, pp. 121-129.
- “Justice and Ideology: Justice as Ideology”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, vol. 1, 1981, pp. 165-178.
- “On Being Morally Authoritative”, Mind, vol. 89, no. 355, 1980, pp. 423-430.
- “On Justifying Violence”, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 1, 1981, pp. 21-57.
- “Rawls and the Left: Some Left Critiques of Rawls’ Principles of Justice”, Analyse & Kritik, vol. 2, no. 1, 1980, pp. 74-97.
- “Wisdom and Dilman and the Reality of God”, Religious Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, Mar. 1980, pp. 49-60.
1970s
- “Ideological Mystification and Archimedean Points”, Revue internationale de philosophie, vol. 33, no. 130, 1979, pp. 848-852.
- “Necessity and God”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 10, no. 1, 1979, pp. 1-23.
- “On Deriving an Ought from an Is: A Retrospective Look”, Review of Metaphysics, vol. 32, no. 3, 1979, pp. 487-514.
- “On the Choice Between Reform and Revolution”, in Revolutions, Systems and Theories, edited by H.J. Johnson , J.J. Leach and R.G. Muehlmann, Theory and Decision Library, vol 19, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, pp. 155-176.
- “Radical Egalitarian Justice: Justice as Equality”, Social Theory and Practice, vol. 5, 1979, pp. 209-226. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Radical theological non-naturalism”, Sophia, vol. 18, no 2, 1979, pp. 1-6.
- “Reasonable Belief Without Justification”, in Body, Mind, and Method. Essays In Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich, edited by D.F. Gustafson and B.L. Tapscott, Synthese Library, vol. 138, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, pp. 65-75.
- “Religion, Science and Limiting Questions”, Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses, vol. 8, no. 3, 1979, pp. 259-265.
- “Reason and Sentiment: Skeptical Remarks about Reason and the Foundations of Morality”, in Rationality Today/La rationalité d'aujourd'hui, edited by Theodore Geraets, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1979, pp. 249-279.
- “Some Theses in Search of an Argument: Reflections on Habermas”, National Forum, vol. 59, 1979, pp. 27-32.
- “Testing Ethical Theories: The Right and the Good Again”, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, vol. 11, no. 32, 1979, pp. 15-28.
- “Class and Justice”, in Justice and Economic Distribution, edited by John Arthur and William H. Shaw, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978, pp. 225-245. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “Egalitarianism, Socialism and Just Land Use”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol. 9, no. 1, 1978, pp. 68-79.
- “Equality, Justice and Class: Comments on ‘Les deux principes de la justice selon Rawls’”, Dialectica, vol. 32, no. 2, 1978, pp. 125-133.
- “On the Rationality of Radical Theological Non-Naturalism: More on the Verificationist Turn in the Philosophy of Religion”, Religious Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Jun. 1978, pp. 193-204.
- “On the Very Possibility of a Classless Society: Rawls, Macpherson, and Revisionist Liberalism”, Political Theory, vol. 6, no. 2, 1978, pp. 191-208.
- “Persons, Morals and the Animal Kingdom”, Man and World, vol. 11, no. 3/4, 1978, pp. 231-256.
- “Some Remarks on Philosophical Method”, Metaphilosophy, vol. 9, no. 1, 1978, pp. 23-26.
- “Why There Is a Problem about Ethics: Reflections on the Is and the Ought”, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, vol. 15, 1978, pp. 68-96.
- “On Justifying Revolution”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 37, no. 4, 1977, pp. 516-532.
- “Rawls and Classist Amoralism”, Mind, vol. 86, no. 341, 1977, pp. 19-30.
- “Mill’s Proof of Utility”, in New Dimensions in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, edited by Harry Garvin, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1977, pp. 110-123.
- “Our Considered Judgements”, Ratio, no. 19, 1977, pp. 21-30.
- “Rawls and Classist Amoralism”, Mind, vol. 86, no. 341, 1977, pp. 19-30.
- “The Choice between Perfectionism and Rawlsian Contractarianism”, interpretation, vol. 6, no. 2, 1977, pp. 132-39.
- “The Priority of Liberty Examined”, Indian Political Science Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 1977, pp. 48-59.
- “True Needs, Rationality and Emancipation”, in Human Needs and Politics, edited by R. Fitzgerald, Melbourne, Australia: Pergamon Press, 1977, pp. 142-156.
- “A Condition of Rationality”, Philosophia, vol. 6, no. 1, 1976, pp. 21-27.
- “Can There Be an Emancipatory Rationality?”, Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, vol. 8, no. 24, 1976, pp. 79-102.
- “Distrusting Reason”, Ethics, vol. 87, no. 1, 1976, pp. 49-60.
- “Ethical Subjectivism Again”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 37, no. 1, 1976, pp. 123-124.
- “Ethics Without God. Morality and the Will of God”, in Critiques of God, edited by Peter Adam Angeles, New York: Prometheus Books, 1976.
- “On Ascertaining What Is Intrinsically Good”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 10, no. 2, 1976, pp. 137-139.
- “On Philosophic Method”, International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, 1976, pp. 349-368.
- “Rationality and Universality”, The Monist, vol. 59, no. 3, 1976, pp. 441-455.
- “Class Conflict, Marxism, and the Good-Reasons Approach”, Social Praxis, vol. 2, no. 1-2, 1975, pp. 89-112.
- “Eschatological Verification”, in The Logic of God: Theology and Verification, edited by Malcolm L. Diamond and Thomas V. Litzenburg, Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, pp. 209-222.
- “God and Verification Again”, in The Logic of God: Theology and Verification, edited by Malcolm L. Diamond and Thomas V. Litzenburg, Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, pp. 230-238.
- “On Fixing the Reference Range of ‘God’”, in The Logic of God: Theology and Verification, edited by Malcolm L. Diamond and Thomas V. Litzenburg, Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, pp. 330-340.
- “Covert and Overt Synonymity: Brandt and Moore and the ‘Naturalistic Fallacy’”, Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, vol. 25, no. 1, 1974, pp. 51-56.
- “Does Ethical Subjectivism Have a Coherent Form?”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 35, no. 1, 1974, pp. 93-99.
- “Principles of Rationality”, Philosophical Papers, vol. 3, no. 2, 1974, pp. 55-89.
- “Rationality and Relativism”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 4, no. 4, 1974, pp. 313-331.
- “Social Science and American Foreign Policy”, in Philosophy, Morality, and Public Affairs, edited by Virginia Held, Sidney Morgenbesser and Thomas Nagel, New York: Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 151-72.
- “Terrorism and Political Assassination”, in Assassination, edited by Harold M. Zellner, Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1974, pp. 97-110.
- “Truth-Conditions and Necessary Existence”, Scottish Journal of Theology, vol. 27, no. 3, Aug. 1974, pp. 257-267.
- “Agnosticism”, in The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, vol. 1, edited by Philip Wiener, 1973, pp. 17-27.
- “A Critical Notice of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice”, Second Order, no. 2, 1973, pp. 101-121.
- “Alienation and Self-Realization”, Philosophy, vol. 48, no. 183, 1973, pp. 21-33.
- “Arguing About the Rationality of Religion”, Sophia, vol. 12, no. 3, 1973, pp. 7-10.
- “God and Self: The Function of Religious Claims”, The Journal of Religion, vol. 53, no. 4, 1973, pp. 456-477. [with Marcia Cavell]
- “Hedonism & the Ends of Life”, Journal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glascow, 1973, pp. 14-26.
- “Monro on Mill’s ‘Third Howler’”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 51, no. 1, 1973, pp. 63-69.
- “Nietzsche As A Moral Philosopher”, Man and World, vol. 6, no. 2, 1973, pp. 182-205.
- “On the Ethics of Revolution”, Radical Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 17, 1973, pp. 17-19.
- “Religious Truth-Claims and Faith”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 4, no. 1, 1973, pp.13-29.
- “The Challenge of Wittgenstein: An Examination of His Picture of Religious Belief”, Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses, vol. 3, no. 1, 1973, pp. 29-46.
- “The Enforcement of Morality and Future Generations”, Philosophia, vol. 3, no. 4, 1973, pp. 443-448.
- “Against Moral Conservatism”, Ethics, vol. 82, no. 3, 1972, pp. 219-231.
- “Ethical Egoism and Rational Action”, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 69, no. 20, 1972, pp. 698-700.
- “The Coherence of Wittgensteinian Fideism”, Sophia, vol. 11, no. 3, 1972, pp. 4-12.
- “On Giving Reasons for Being Moral”, Analysis, vol. 33, no. 1, 1972, pp. 17-19.
- “On Refusing to Play the Sceptic’s Game”, Dialogue, vol. 11, no. 3, Sept. 1972, pp. 348-359.
- “Anthropology and Ethics”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 5, no. 4, 1971, pp. 253-266.
- “On the Choice between Reform and Revolution”, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 1, 1971, pp. 271-95. [republished in Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will, 2012]
- “When Are Immoralities Crimes?”, Philosophia, vol. 1, no. 3/4, 1971, pp. 133-142.
- “On the Logic of ‘Revelation’”, Sophia, vol. 9, no. 1, 1970, pp. 8-13.
- “Remarks on Violence and Paying the Penalty”, Philosophic Exchange, vol. 1, no. 1, 1970, pp. 113-119.
- “The Intelligibility of God-Talk”, Religious Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, Mar. 1970, pp. 1-21.
- “The Primacy of Philosophical Theology”, Theology Today, vol. 27, no. 2, 1970, pp. 155-169.
1960s
- “Wittgensteinian Fideism Again: A Reply to Hudson”, Philosophy, vol. 44, no. 167, 1969, pp. 63-65.
- “Comments on Empiricism and Theism”, Sophia, vol. 7, no. 3, 1968, pp. 12-17.
- “On Moral Truth”, in Studies in Moral Philosophy, edited by Nicholas Rescher, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. 9-25.
- “Religion and Naturalistic Humanism: Some Remarks on Hook’s Critique of Religion ”, in Sidney Hook and the Contemporary World: Essays on the Pragmatic Intelligence, edited by Paul Kurtz and Sidney Hook, New York: John Day, 1968.
- “Scepticism and Human Rights”, The Monist, vol. 52, no. 4, 1968, pp. 575-594.
- “Ethics, History of (Twentieth Century Ethics)”, in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 3, edited by Paul Edwards, New York: The Macmillan Company and The Free Press, London: Collier- Macmillan Limited, 1967, pp. 97-112.
- “Ethics, Problems of”, in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 3, edited by Paul Edwards, New York: The Macmillan Company and The Free Press, London: Collier- Macmillan Limited, 1967, pp. 117-134.
- “Is to Abandon Determinism to Withdraw from the Enterprise of Science?”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 28, no. 1, 1967, pp. 117-121.
- “Why should I Be Moral?”, Problems of Moral Philosophy: An Introduction to Ethics, edited by Paul W. Taylor, Dickenson Publishing, 1967.
- “Wittgensteinian Fideism”, Philosophy, vol. 42, no. 161, Jul. 1967, pp. 191-209.
- “Ethical Relativism and the Facts of Cultural Relativity”, Social Research, vol. 33, no. 4, 1966, pp. 531-551.
- “On Fixing the Reference Range of 'God'”, Religious Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, Oct. 1966, pp. 13-36.
- “God and Verification Again”, Canadian Journal of Theology, vol. 11, no. 2, 1965, pp. 135-141.
- “On Being Moral”, Philosophical Studies, vol. 16, no. 1/2, 1965, pp. 1-4.
- “Progress”, Lock Haven Review, no. 7, 1965.
- “Religious Perplexity and Faith”, Crane Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 1965, pp. 1-17.
- “God and the Good: Does Morality Need Religion?”, Theology Today, vol. 21, no. 1, 1964, pp. 47-58.
- “God-Talk”, Sophia, vol. 3, no. 3, 1964, pp. 15-19.
- “The Good Reasons Approach Revisited”, Archiv für Rechts und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, vol. 50, no. 4, 1964, pp. 455-484.
- “Can Faith Validate God-talk?”, Theology Today, no. 20, 1963, pp. 173-84.
- “Eschatological Verification”, Canadian Journal of Theology, vol. 9, no. 4, 1963, pp. 271-281.
- “Christian Positivism and the Appeal of Religious Experience”, The Journal of Religion, vol. 42, no. 4, 1962, pp. 248-261.
- “Conventionalism in Morals and the Appeal to Human Nature”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 23, no. 2, 1962, pp. 217-231.
- “Ethical Naturalism Once Again”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 40, no. 3, 1962, pp. 313-317.
- “On Speaking of God”, Theoria, no. 28, 1962, pp. 110-137.
- “On Taking Human Nature as the Basis of Morality: An Exercise in Linguistic Analysis”, Social Research, vol. 29, no. 2, 1962, pp. 157-176.
- “Is God So Powerful That He Doesn't Even Have to Exist?”, in Religious Experience and Truth: A Symposium, edited by Sidney Hook, New York, NY: New York University Press, 1961, pp. 270-281.
- “Appraising Doing the Thing Done”, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 57, no. 24, 1960, pp. 749-759.
- “Dewey’s Conception of Philosophy”, Massachusetts Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1960, pp. 110-134.
1950s
- “An Examination of the Thomistic Theory of Natural Moral Law”, Natural Law Forum, no. 44, 1959, pp. 44-71.
- “The ‘Good Reasons Approach’ and ‘Ontological Justifications’ of Morality”, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 35, 1959, pp. 116-30.
- “Bertrand Russell’s New Ethic”, Methodos, vol. 10, no. 39, 1958, pp. 151-181.
- “Good Reasons in Ethics: An Examination of the Toulmin-Hare Controversy”, Theoria, vol. 24, no. 1, 1958, pp. 9-28.
- “Is ‘Why Should I Be Moral?’ an Absurdity?”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 36, no. 1, 1958, pp. 25-32.
- “Speaking of Morals”, The Centennial Review, vol. 2, 1958, pp. 414-444.
- “Justification and Moral Reasoning”, Methodos, vol. 9, no. 33-34, 1957, pp. 98-111.
- “The Functions of Moral Discourse”, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 7, 1957, pp. 236-248.
- “Reason and Morality”, The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 28, no. 5, 1957, pp. 265-274, 294.