Publications

Listed by publication stage and author name (see "Research" for a topical listing)

Accepted/Under Contract

Chawla, M., Baker, A. A., & Earp B. (In Press). Gender disparities in moral judgment. In F. De Brigard & W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Eds.), Neuroscience and philosophy: Volume 2. Boston: MIT Press.

Johnson, D. (under contract). Belief Beyond Reason, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan)

Kapelner, Z. (accepted). The Ethics of Agenda Setting, accepted at Synthese

Watzl, S. (in press). Attention and Introspection, in: A. Guistina, The Routledge Handbook of Introspection (Ch. 25, pp. 390-408), Routledge

Watzl, S. (forthcoming). Attentional Practices, forthcoming in Ethos

Published

Bellardinelli, G., Bolander, T., and Watzl S. (2025), A Logic for General Attention Using Edge-Conditioned Event Models, In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-25) (extended version with proofs)

Browne, K., & Watzl, S. (2026). The attention market—and what is wrong with it. Philosophical Studies, 183(1), 227-257.

Baker, A. A. (2025). Nonverbal marginalization. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 111(3), 919-953.

Baker, A.A. and Green, J.R. (2025). The Right to Transgender Identity. The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence, 649-665

Friedman, Y. Watzl, S. Oftedal, G. and Gørbitz, CH (2022), Kurering, Heling, og Habilitering, Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening

Johnson, D. (2025). Belief beyond reason: A radical relativist hinge epistemology. Asian Journal of Philosophy, 4(1), 1-26

Kapelner, Z. (2024). Civic Friendship, the Burdens of Politics, and the Ethics of Attention. Analyse & Kritik, 46(2), 279-287.

Kapelner, Z. (2025). Democratic Failures and The Ethics of Democracy by Adam Lovett. The Philosophical Quarterly, 75 (3), 1239–1241

Kapelner, Z. (2026). Ignoring the Unreasonable. Moral Philosophy and Politics, (0), 1-21

Pedaprolu, H. (2025). Questions in Conflict: On the Role of Attention in Inquiry and Communication, Dissertation submitted on 4 September, 2025, defended Feb 10, 2026.

Watzl, S. (2023). What attention is. The priority structure account Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1632.

Watzl S. (2022). The ethics of attention In: S. Archer (ed.), Salience (pp. 89-112)., Routledge

Watzl, S (2022). Self-control, Attention, and How to Live without Special Motivational Powers. In M. Brent, and LM Titus, Mental action and the conscious mind (pp. 272-300). Routledge.

Watzl, S., Browne, K., Clover, L., Eldjarn, E., Kapelner, Z., Lange, V., Pedaprolu, H., & Williams, J. (2026). Social Media Bans and the Ethics of Attention, Policy Brief submitted to the Norwegian Government and other European Institutions

Under Review*

Baker, A. (revise and resubmit), Paper on Prioritization of Social Stereotypes (pdf), Philosophy and Psychology

Johnson, D. (in review), Paper on the Natural Function of Attention (pdf)

Johnson, D. (in review), Paper applying the account of the Natural Function of Attention to the Attention Economy (pdf)

Johnson, D. and Ashton, N (revise and resubmit). A new direction for hinge epistemology I, Philosophy Compass

Johnson, D. and Ashton, N (revise and resubmit). A new direction for hinge epistemology II, Philosophy Compass

Pedaprolu, H. (in review). Paper on Attention and Inquisitive Structure

Pedaprolu, H. (in review). Paper on Attentional Conflicts

Watzl, S. (in review). Paper on Rationality and Salience (pdf)

Watzl, S. (in review). Paper on the Cognitive Scaffolding of attention (pdf)

Watzl, S. (in review). Paper on the Evaluation of Distraction (pdf)

Work in Progress

Bellardinelli, G. Bolander, T. and Watzl, S. (in preparation). The Logic of Attention

Baker, A. (in preparation). Paper on Communication, Attention, and Cognitive Load

Baker, A. (in preparation) Paper on Causal Theories of Knowledge

Clover, L. (in preparation). Paper on Fittingnes, Attention, and Care

Clover, L. (in preparation). Paper on Attention and Fitting anxiety

Clover, L. (in preparation). Paper on Attention and Inquiry

Johnson, D. (in preparation). Structural Cognitive Injustice

Johnson, D. (in preparation). Paper on Salience, Attention Norms, and Hinge-Epistemology (pdf).

Kapelner, Z. and Browne, K. (in preparation). Paper on Justice and Public Attention

Kapelner, A. (in preparation). Paper “Democracy and the value of political choice

Watzl, S. (in preparation). Paper on Attention and Rational Choice

Watzl, S. (in preparation). Attention and Inquiry (pdf)


*we provide preprints only of some paper currently in the review process.

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