Publications

Silverstein, Matthew. "The Aim of Practical Reasoning." Ethics 136, no. 1 (October 2025): 121–46.

Silverstein, Matthew. “Agency and Normativity Self-Governance.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95, no. 3 (2017): 517–28.

Silverstein, Matthew, “Ethics and Practical Reasoning.” Ethics 127, no. 4 (January 2017): 353–82.

Silverstein, Matthew,  “Reducing Reasons.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 10, no. 1 (2016): 1–22.

Silverstein, Matthew,  “The Shmagency Question.” Philosophical Studies 172, no. 5 (May 2015): 1127–42.

Silverstein, Matthew,  “Reasoning in Stages.” Ethics 124, no. 1 (October 2013): 101–13. (Co-authored with Nishi Shah.)

Silverstein, Matthew, “Inescapability and Normativity.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6, no. 3 (December 2012): 1–26.

Silverstein, Matthew,  “The Standards of Practical Reasoning.” Critical Notice of Reasons without Rationalism, by Kieran Setiya. Philosophical Quarterly 60, no. 240 (July 2010): 671–78.

Silverstein, Matthew,  “In Defense of Happiness: A Response to the Experience Machine.” Social Theory and Practice 26, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 279–300.

Silverstein, Matthew. "Revisionist Metaethics." In Methodology and Moral Philosophy, edited by Jussi Suikkanen and Antti Kauppinen. Routledge: 2018.

Silverstein, Matthew,  “Teleology and Normativity.” In Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 11, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau. Oxford University Press, 2016.