Philip Robbins
PhD, University of Chicago
AB, Harvard University
Experimental ethics, moral psychology, philosophical psychology
Ethics, experimental philosophy, logic, moral psychology, philosophical psychology
Jack, A.I., Robbins, P., Friedman, J.P., & Roepstorff, A. (2026). The genuine problem of consciousness. In A. Raffone (Ed.), Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-29258-3.00037-9
Robbins, P. (2026). The sociality 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, 44(3), 479–494.. 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2026.2640983
Malle, B.F., & Robbins, P. (Eds.). (2025). The Cambridge Handbook of Moral Psychology. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894357
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
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. (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
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). Bloomsbury Academic. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472594136.ch-006
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