Philip Robbins
PhD, University of Chicago
AB, Harvard
Experimental Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Psychology
Ethics, Experimental Philosophy, Logic, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Psychology
Robbins, P. (forthcoming). The social foundations of consciousness. In A. Raffone (Ed.), Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd edition. Elsevier.
Jack, A.I., Robbins, P., Friedman, J.P., & Roepstorff, A. (forthcoming). The genuine problem of consciousness. In A. Raffone (Ed.), Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd edition. Elsevier.
Robbins, P., & Alvear, F. (2026). Love, money, and blame: Effects of emotional and economic hardship on judgments of criminal behavior. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.70055
Roderick, A., Guo, Y., Robbins, P., & Campione-Barr, N. (2026). Adults’ perceptions of childhood transgressions: The role of parental status and knowledge of child development. Journal of Moral Education, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2026.2640983
Robbins, P. (2025). Of machines and men: Attributions of moral responsibility in AI-assisted warfare. Ethics and Information Technology, 27(35). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09844-3
Malle, B.F., & Robbins, P. (2025). Modern moral psychology: An introduction to the terrain. In B.F. Malle & P. Robbins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology (pp. 1-30). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894357.002
Malle, B.F., & Robbins, P. (Eds.). (2025). The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894357
Robbins, P. (2025). Moral categorization and mind perception. In B.F. Malle & P. Robbins (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology (pp. 198-221). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894357.012
Robbins, P., & Drayson, Z. (2025). Modularity of mind. In E.N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2025/entries/modularity-mind/
Robbins, P., & Alvear, F. (2023). Deformative experience: Explaining the effects of adversity on moral evaluation. Social Cognition, 41(5), 415–446. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.5.415
Robbins, P., Alvear, F., & Litton, P. (2021). Good deeds and hard knocks: The effect of past suffering on praise for moral behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104216
Robbins P, & Litton P. (2018). Crime, punishment, and causation: The effect of etiological information on the perception of moral agency. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24(1), 118–127. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000146
Robbins P. (2015). Philosophizing the social brain. Cognitive Systems Research, 34–35, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.09.001
Jack, A.I. , Robbins, P. , Friedman, J.P. , & Meyers, C.D. (2014). More Than a Feeling: Counterintuitive Effects of Compassion on Moral Judgment. In J. Sytsma (Ed.). Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind (pp. 125–180). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved April 27, 2026, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472594136.ch-006
Robbins, P., & Shields, K. (2014). Explaining ideology: Two factors are better than one. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(3), 326–328. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13002719
Robbins P. (2013). Modularity and mental architecture. WIREs Cognitive Science, 4(6), 641-649. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1255
Jack, A.I., & Robbins, P. (2012). The phenomenal stance revisited. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 3(3), 383–403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-012-0104-5
Knobe, J., Buckwalter, W., Nichols, S., Robbins, P., Sarkissian, H., & Sommers, T. (2012). Experimental philosophy. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 81–99. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100350