Books:

Johnson, R. (Forthcoming). Kant’s critique of practical reason. Oxford University Press.

Johnson, R.N., & Smith, M. (Eds.). (2015). Passions and projections: Themes from the philosophy of Simon Blackburn. Oxford University Press.

Timmons, M., & Johnson , R.N. (Eds.). (2015). Reason, value, and respect: Kantian themes from the philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. Oxford University Press. 

Johnson, R.N. (2011). Self-Improvement: An Essay in Kantian Ethics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599349.001.0001

Selected Publications:

Johnson, R. (Forthcoming). Kantian deontology. In J.P. Rawling (Ed.) Oxford handbook of deontology. Oxford University Press.

Johnson, R. (2024). Method of pure practical reason. In S. Baiasu & M. Timmons (Eds.), The Kantian mind pp. 189-198). Routledge.

Johnson, R. (Forthcoming). Principles first. In M. Timmons (Ed.), Oxford studies in normative ethics. Oxford University Press. 

Johnson, R. (Forthcoming). Why be moral? In D. Copp & C. Rosati (Eds.), Oxford handbook of metaethics. Oxford University Press.

Johnson, R., & Cureton, A. (2022). Kant’s moral philosophy. In E.N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (Eds.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/kant-moral/

Johnson, R. (2021). Courage. In J. Wuerth (Ed.), Cambridge Kant lexicon. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139018159

Johnson, R. (2021). Duties to self. In J. Wuerth (Ed.), Cambridge Kant lexicon. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139018159

Johnson, R., & Cureton, A. (2017). Kant's moral philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/kant-moral

Gaus, G., Timmons, M., & Johnson, R. N. (2015). Private and public conscience. Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill Jr, 135-157.

Johnson, R.N., & Smith, M. (2015). Introduction. In R.N., Johnson, & M. Smith (Eds.), Passions and projections: Themes from the philosophy of Simon Blackburn (pp. ix-xiv), Oxford University Press.

Timmons, M., & Johnson, R.N. (2015). Introduction. In M. Timmons & R.N. Johnson (Eds.), Reason, value, and respect: Kantian themes from the philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. Oxford University Press. 

Johnson, R.N. (2015). Virtue and right revisited [PEA Soup Blog]. Retrieved from https://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/04/virtue-and-right-revisted-by-featured-philosopher-robert-n-johnson.html

Johnson, R.N. (2015). Entries: Anlage, (moralische, ursprünglische), Depositum, Eudämonismus, Gebot, & Ideal (moralisches). In G. Mohr, J. Stolzenberg, & M. Willaschek (Eds.), Kant-Lexicon. De Gruyter. 

Johnson, R.N. (2011). Self-improvement as an imperfect duty. In R.N. Johnson (Ed.), Self-improvement: An essay in Kantian ethics, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599349.001.0001

Johnson, R.N. (2010). Self-development as an imperfect duty. Moral cultivation: Essays on the development of character and virtue (pp. 125-146), Lexington Books.

Johnson, R.N. (2010). Duties to and regarding others. In L. Denis (Ed.), Kant's metaphysics of morals: A critical guide, Cambridge University Press.

Johnson, R.N. (2009). Good will and the moral worth of acting from duty. In T. E. Hill (Ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics (pp. 17-51). Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308488.ch1

Johnson, R.N. (2009). The moral law as causal law. In J. Timmermann (Ed.), Kant’s groundwork of the Metaphysics of morals: A critical guide, Cambridge University Press.

Johnson, R.N. (2008). Was Kant a virtue ethicist? In M. Betzler (Ed.), Kant's ethics of virtue (pp. 7-28), De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209655.61

Johnson, R.N. (2007). Self-development as an imperfect duty. In B. Wilburn (Ed.), Moral cultivation: Essays on the development of character and virtue. Lexington Books.

Johnson, R. N. (2007). Prichard, Falk, and the end of deliberation. Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, 33, 131–147. https://doi.org/10.1353/cjp.0.0068

Johnson, R.N. (2007). Value and autonomy in Kantian ethics. In R. Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford studies in metaethics (Vol. 2) (pp. 133-148), Oxford University Press.

Johnson, R.N. (2006). Practical reason. In D. Borchert (Ed.), Encyclopedia of philosophy (Vol. 7) (pp. 735-738), https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-of-philosophy_202009

Johnson, R. (2005). Entries: Obligation, Relativism. In M.C. Horowitz (Ed.) New dictionary of the history of ideas (Vol. 5) (pp. 1658-1663, 2035-2039), Scribner & Sons.

Johnson, R.N. (2003). Virtue and right. Ethics, 113(4), 810-834. https://doi.org/10.1086/730399 Reprinted in:

• Sterba, J.P. (Ed.). (2009). Ethics: The big questions (2nd ed.) (pp. 400-408), Blackwell.
• Grim, P., Ludlow, P. & Mar, G. (Eds.) (2009). The Philosopher’s Annual 26. CSLI Piblications. https://www.philosophersannual.org/
• Timmons, M. (Ed.) (2012). Conduct and character: Readings in moral theory (pp. 187-194), Wadsworth.
• Cahn, S.M., & Forceheims, A.T. (Eds.). (2016). Principles of moral philosophy: Classical and contemporary sources. Oxford University Press.

Johnson, R.M. (2003). Internal reasons: Reply to Brady, Gert and van Roojen. The Philosophical Quarterly 53(213), 573-580. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00333

Johnson, R.M. (2003). Internal reasons and the conditional fallacy. The Philosophical Quarterly, 49(194), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00128

Johnson, R.N. (2002). Happiness as a natural end. In M. Timmons (Ed.), Kant's metaphysics of morals: Interpretive essays (pp. 637-665), Oxford University Press.

Johnson, R.N. (2002). Review of ‘The Authority of Reason’ by J. Hampton. Mind, 111(443), 676-79. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3093633

Johnson. R.N. (2001, August 10). Commentary on moral cognitivism and motivation [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/0107john.html

Johnson, R.N. (1999). Internal reasons and the conditional fallacy. The Philosophical Quarterly, 49(194), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00128

Johnson, R.N. (1998). Weakness incorporated. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 15(3), 349-367. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27744788

Johnson, R.N. (1998). Minding one's manners: Revisiting moral explanations. Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, 90(2), 181-203. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4320846

Johnson, R. N. (1997). Kant’s conception of virtue. Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik / Annual Review of Law and Ethics, 5, 365–387. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43593601

Johnson, R. N. (1997). Review of Kantian ethics almost without apology, by M. W. Baron. The Philosophical Review, 106(4), 594–596. https://doi.org/10.2307/2998519

Johnson, R.N. (1997). Reasons and advice for the practically rational. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 57(3), 619-625. https://doi.org/10.2307/2953753 

Johnson, R.N. (1997). Love in vain. Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXXVI Supplement, 45-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1998.tb01777.x

Johnson, R.N. (1996). Kant’s conception of merit. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 77(4), 310-334. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.1996.tb00173.x

Johnson, R.M. (1996). Expressing a good will: Kant on the motive of duty. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 34(2), 147-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1996.tb00783.x

Johnson, R.M. (1996). Deontological ethics. In University of Stanford (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Supplement), Macmillan.

Johnson. R.N. (2001, August 10). Commentary on moral cognitivism and motivation [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/0107john.html

Johnson, R. (1996, September 12). Hurka on Rational Regret [Web commentary on Thomas Hurka's "Monism, Pluralism and Rational Regret,” in Ethics, 106(3), 555-575. Retrieved from https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/9609john.html