Philosophy

Work on temporally-extended agency, the ethics and metaphysics of forgetting, self-regulation, and the dynamics of consciousness — and, more recently, the pedagogy of civil discourse. [placeholder — replace with your own framing]

Research themes

Agency over time

How intentions reach across time to govern later action, and what that demands of a theory of self-control. [placeholder]

Forgetting & omission

When forgetting is action-like, and how responsibility attaches to what we fail to do or remember. [placeholder]

Consciousness

The temporal structure and dynamics of conscious experience. [placeholder]

Civil discourse

Pedagogy of disagreement, with the Dialogue, Inclusion, and Democracy lab. [placeholder]

Selected work

'26

Vigilance

Amaya, S., & Murray, S. — Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2026)

'25

Vigilance and mind wandering

Murray, S. — Mind \& Language (2025)

'24

Do people understand determinism? The tracking problem for measuring free will beliefs

Murray, S., Dykhuis, E., & Nadelhoffer, T. — Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (2024)

'24

Negligence and self-trust

Murray, S. — Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility (2024)

'24

Causal Power and Perfection: Descartes' Second A Posteriori Argument for the Existence of God

Murray, S. — Review of Metaphysics (2024)

'24

The nature and norms of vigilance

Murray, S. — American Philosophical Quarterly (2024)

'24

The Catch-22 of Forgetfulness: Responsibility for Mental Mistakes

Irving, Z., Murray, S., Glasser, A., & Krasich, K. — Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2024)

'23

Intuitions about free will and the failure to comprehend determinism

Nadelhoffer, T., Murray, S., & Murry, E. — Erkenntnis (2023)

'23

What's inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control

Bermudez, J.P., Murray, S., Chartrand, L., & Barbosa, S. — Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2023)

'23

Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control

Murray, S., Amaya, S., & Jimenez-Leal, W. — Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2023)

'23

Bringing Self-control into the Future

Murray, S., & Henne, P. — Advances in experimental philosophy of action (2023)

'23

Introduction to Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action

Murray, S., & Henne, P. — Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action (2023)

'23

Advances in experimental philosophy of action

Murray, S., & Henne, P. — Bloomsbury (edited volume) (2023)

'23

Not what I expected: Feeling of surprise differentially mediates effect of personal control on attributions of free will and responsibility

Murray, S., & Nadelhoffer, T. — Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2023)

'22

Can the mind wander intentionally?

Murray, S., & Krasich, K. — Mind \& Language (2022)

'22

The scientific study of passive thinking: Methods of mind wandering research

Murray, S., Irving, Z.C., & Krasich, K. — Neuroscience and Philosophy (2022)

'22

Times imagined and remembered

De Brigard, F., Khoudary, M., & Murray, S. — Temporal asymmetries in philosophy \& psychology (2022)

'22

Neural differences between internal and external episodic counterfactual thoughts

Khoudary, A., O'Neill, K., Faul, L., Murray, S., Smallman, R., & De Brigard, F. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2022)

'21

Piercing the smoke screen: Dualism, free will, and Christianity

Murray, S., Murray, E., & Nadelhoffer, T. — Journal of cognition and culture (2021)

'21

These confabulations are guaranteed to improve your marriage! Toward a teleological theory of confabulation

Murray, S., & Finocchiaro, P. — Synthese (2021)

'21

The neurocognitive mechanisms of responsibility: a framework for normatively relevant neuroscience

Murray, S., & De Brigard, F. — Developments in Neuroethics and bioethics (2021)

'20

The place of the trace: Negligence and responsibility

Murray, S. — Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2020)

'20

Vigilance and Control

Murray, S., & Vargas, M. — Philosophical Studies (2020)

'20

A case for conservatism about animal consciousness

Murray, S. — Journal of Consciousness Studies (2020)

'19

Responsibility for forgetting

Murray, S., Murray, E.D., Stewart, G., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & De Brigard, F. — Philosophical Studies (2019)

'18

Why value values?

Samuel, M. — Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2018)

'18

Reference fiction, and omission

Murray, S. — Synthese (2018)

'17

Responsibility and vigilance

Murray, S. — Philosophical Studies (2017)

'17

Leibnizian Deliberation

Murray, S. — Quaestiones Disputatae (2017)

'16

O'Connor's argument for indeterminism

Murray, S. — Philosophical Explorations (2016)

'15

An early theory of contingency in Leibniz

Murray, S. — Studia Leibnitiana (2015)

Book reviews

'22

Consciousness, objectivity, and bias in comparative psychology: Kristin Andrews How to study animal minds

(2022)

'20

Emergence: Towards a New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science by Mariusz Tabaczek

The Review of Metaphysics (2020)

'18

Irena Backus. Leibniz: Protestant Theologian

Journal of Analytic Theology (2018)

'18

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, edited by David Shoemaker

journal of moral philosophy (2018)

'18

Consciousness and Freedom: The Inseparability of Thinking and Doing

The Review of Metaphysics (2018)

'16

Randolph Clarke: Omissions: Responsibility, Agency, and Metaphysics

Faith and Philosophy (2016)

'14

Book Review: Leibniz, God, and Necessity. By Michael V. Griffin

(2014)

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