Areas of expertise

• Philosophical Psychology (Incl. Moral Psychology And Philosophy Of Action) 220311
• Philosophy Of Cognition 220312
• Philosophy Of Mind (Excl. Cognition) 220314
• Ethical Theory 220305

Publications

• McGeer, V 2021, 'Enculturating folk psychologists', Synthese, vol. 199, no. 1-2, pp. 1039-1063.
• McGeer, V 2018, 'Intelligent Capacities ', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. CXVIII, no. Part 3, pp. 347-376pp.
• McGeer, V 2018, 'Scaffolding agency: A proleptic account of the reactive attitudes', European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 301-323.
• McGeer, V 2018, 'The value of reactive attitudes: Critical Response to Christine Tappolet's Emotions, Values and Agency', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 512pp-519pp.
• McGeer, V & Pettit, P 2017, 'The empowering theory of trust', in Paul Faulkner and Thomas Simpson (ed.), The Philosophy of Trust, Oxford University Press, Britain, United Kingdom, pp. 14-34.
• McGeer, V & Funk, F 2017, 'Are 'optimistic' theories of criminal justice psychologically feasible? The probative case of civic republicanism', Criminal law and philosophy, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 523-544.
• McGeer, V 2015, 'Mind-making practices: the social infrastructure of self-knowing agency and responsibility', Philosophical Explorations, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 259-281.
• McGeer, V & Pettit, P 2015, 'The desirability and feasibility of restorative justice (French)', Raisons Politiques, vol. 59, pp. 17-33.
• McGeer, V 2015, 'Building a better theory of responsibility', Philosophical Studies, vol. 172, no. 10, pp. 2635-2649.
• McGeer, V & Pettit, P 2015, 'The Hard Problem of Responsibility', in David Shoemaker (ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility: Volume 3, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 160-188pp.
• McGeer, V & Pettit, P 2015, 'The desirability and feasibility of restorative justice', Restorative Justice, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 325-341.
• Funk, F, McGeer, V & Gollwitzer, M 2014, 'Get the Message: Punishment Is Satisfying If the Transgressor Responds to Its Communicative Intent', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 986-997.
• McGeer, V 2014, 'P. F. Strawson's Consequentialism', in David Shoemaker and Neal Tognazzini (ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 2: 'Freedom and Resentment' at 50, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 64-92.
• McGeer, V 2013, 'Civilizing Blame', in D. Justin Coates &? Neal A. Tognazzini (ed.), Blame: Its Nature and Norms, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 162-188.
• McGeer, V 2012, 'The Art of Good Hoping', Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Philosophie, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 105-133.
• McGeer, V 2012, 'Co-reactive Attitudes and the Making of Moral Community', in Robyn Langdon & Catriona Mackenzie (ed.), Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, United States, pp. 299-325pp.
• Parkinson, C, Sinnott-Armstrong, W, Koralus, P et al 2011, 'Is morality unified? Evidence that distinct neural systems underlie moral judgments of harm, dishonesty, and disgust', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 3162-3180.
• McGeer, V 2009, 'The skill of perceiving persons', Modern Schoolman, vol. 86, no. 3/4, pp. 289-318.
• McGeer, V 2009, 'The thought and talk of individuals with autism: Reflections on Ian Hacking', Metaphilosophy, vol. 40, no. 3-4, pp. 517-530.
• McGeer, V & Pettit, P 2009, 'Sticky Judgment and the Role of Rhetoric', in Richard Bourke and Raymond Geuss (ed.), Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn, Cambridge University Press, United States, pp. 47-72.
• McGeer, V 2008, 'Trust, hope and empowerment', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 237-254.
• McGeer, V 2008, 'Varieties of Moral Agency: Lessons from Autism (and Psychopathy)', Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol. 3, pp. 227pp-296pp.
• McGeer, V 2007, 'The Regulative Dimension of Folk Psychology', in Daniel Hotto and Matthew Ratcliffe (ed.), In Folk-Psychology reassessed, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 137pp-157pp.
• McGeer, V 2007, 'Why neuroscience matters to cognitive neuropsychology', Synthese, vol. 159, pp. 347pp-371pp.
• McGeer, V 2007, 'The Moral Development of First-Person Authority', European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 81pp-108pp.
• McGeer, V & Schwitzgebel, E 2006, 'Disorder in the Representational Warehouse', Child Development, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. 1557pp-1562pp.
• McGeer, V 2005, 'Out of the Mouths of Autistics: Subjective Report and its Role in Cognitive Theorising', in Andrew Brook and Kathleen Akins (ed.), Cognition and the Brain: The Philosophy and Neuroscience Movement, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 98-130.
• McGeer, V 2004, 'Developing Trust on the Internet', Analyse and Kritik, vol. 26, pp. 91-107.
• McGeer, V 2004, 'Autistic Self-Awareness', Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 235-251.
• McGeer, V 2004, 'The Art of Good Hope', in (ed.), Philosophy of Emotion, Routledge, London, England, pp. 100pp-127pp.
• McGeer, V 2003, 'The Trouble with Mary', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 384-393.
• Gerrans, P & McGeer, V 2003, 'Theory of Mind in Autism and Schizophrenia: a Case of Over-optimistic Reverse Engineering', in Repacholi, B and Slaughter, V (ed.), Individual Differences in Theory of Mind, Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, New York, USA, pp. 271-304.
• McGeer, V & Pettit, P 2002, 'The self-regulating mind', Language and Communication, vol. 22, pp. 281-299.
• McGeer, V 2002, 'Developing Trust', Philosophical Explorations, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 21-38.
• McGeer, V 2002, 'Psycho-practice, Psycho-theory and the Contrastive Case of Autism', Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 8, no. 5-7, pp. 109pp-132pp.
• McGeer, V 1996, 'Is Self-Knowledge An Empirical Problem? Renegotiating the Space of Philosophical Explanation.', The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 93, no. 10, pp. 483pp-515pp.
• McGeer, V 1992, 'Rationality and Error. A surd spot in Rational Intentionalism', Philosophia, vol. 21, no. 3-4, pp. 295pp-309pp.

Projects and Grants

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• The Demands of Reason (Secondary Investigator)