Cognitive Architecture and Cognitive Kinds

From Human Reasoning to Human Belief: An empirical account. Routledge (2026)

Cognitive Architectures, Kinds, and Belief. In What is Belief? Edited by Eric Schwitzgebel and Jonathan Jong. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

Cognitive Heuristics and Biases. In Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic Practices in the Mind-Brain Sciences. By Muhammad Ali Khalidi. Cambridge University Press. (Co-authored with Muhammad Ali Khalidi) (2023)

Self-Reflexive Cognitive Bias. European Journal of Philosophy of Science (2021) 11: 88 (with Muhammad Ali Khalidi).

The Sound-Board Account of Reasoning: A One-System Alternative to Dual-Process Theory. Philosophical Psychology (2018) 31(7): 1046-1073

The Quietest Challenge to the Axiology of God: A Cognitive Approach to Counterpossibles. Faith & Philosophy (2016) 33 (4):441-460.

The Dual-Process Turn How recent defenses of dual-process theories of reasoning fail. Philosophical Psychology (2016) 29(2): 300-309.

Two Minded Creatures and Dual-Process Theory. Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics (2015) 3(3): 87-112.

The Inherent Bias in Positing an Inherence Heuristic. Behavior and Brain Sciences (2014) 37: 493-494.  (Coauthored with Muhammad Ali Khalidi).

Simultaneous Contradictory Belief and the Two-System Hypothesis. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2013) 1044-1048.

Faith and Belief

Faith and Doubt at the Cry of Dereliction: A Defense of Doxasticism.  Sophia (2022) 61, 253–265.

Faith Entails Belief: Three Avenues of Defense Against the Argument from Doubt. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (online 2021).

Defense of the Belief-Plus Model of Faith. European Journal of Philosophy of Religion (2016) 8(2): 201-219.

Epistemic-Moral Racial Dilemma

A Rejoinder to Charles Lassiter’s ‘Response to Joshua Mugg’s ‘How Not to Deal with the Tragic Dilemma’. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2020) 9(6): 93-99.

How Not to Deal with the Tragic Dilemma. Social Epistemology (2020) 34(3): 253-264.

What are the Cognitive Costs of Implicit Racism? A Reply to Gendler. Philosophical Studies (2013) 166(2): 217-229.

Resurrection and Metaphysics of Mind

Can I Survive Without my Body? Undercutting the Modal Argument. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2018) 84 (1):71-92.

Why a Bodily Resurrection?: The Bodily Resurrection and the Mind/Body Relation. Journal of Analytic Theology (2017) 5 (1):121-144. (Coauthored with James T. Turner)

Book Reviews

Review of Implicit Bias and Philosophy Volume 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology edited by Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul. Philosophy in Review (2016) 36(6): 247-248.

Review of Time and Identity by Joseph Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Harry Silverstein (Editors). Metapsychology Online (2011) 15:20.

Review of Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter. Metapsychology Online (2011) 15:4.

Popular Work

Do we have a ‘Bias Bias’? APA Blog (2022). (With Muhammad Ali Khalidi)

The Ethics of Belief in The X-Files. X-Files and Philosophy: The truth is out there. Open Court Press. (2022))

‘Stereotypes: Hurt & Redemption.’ Missouri Baptist University Alumni Magazine (2016).

Three Minute Thesis (video) (2015)