Anton Ford joined the faculty in 2007 and is an Associate Professor in Philosophy. His primary research and teaching interests are in Practical Philosophy, understood broadly to include Action Theory, Ethics, and Political Philosophy. Figures of special interest include Anscombe, Aristotle and Marx.
Selected Publications
“The Province of Human Agency” Noûs 52:3 (2018): 697–720.
“The Progress of the Deed,” in Process, Action and Experience, ed. Rowland Stout (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
“Third Parties to Compromise,” in NOMOS: Compromise, ed. Jack Knight (New York: New York University Press, 2018).
“The Representation of Action,” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 80 (2017): 217-233.
“On What is Front of Your Nose,” Philosophical Topics 44:1 (2016): 141-161.
“The Arithmetic of Intention,” The American Philosophical Quarterly 52:2 (2015): 129–143.
“Action and Passion,” Philosophical Topics 42:1 (2014): 13–42.
“Is Agency a Power of Self-Movement?” Inquiry 56:6 (2013): 597–610.
“Praktische Wahrnehmung,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61:3 (2013): 403–418.
“Action and Generality,” in Essays on Anscombe’s Intention, ed. Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby and Frederick Stoutland (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Essays on Anscombe’s Intention, edited with Jennifer Hornsby and Frederick Stoutland (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011) ed. Anton Ford, Jennifer Hornsby and Frederick Stoutland (Harvard University Press, 2011).
“The Just and the Fine: A Reply to Irwin,” Classical Philology, Vol. 105, No. 4, 2010, 396–402.
For full list of Anton Ford's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.