Philip Robbins
PhD, University of Chicago
AB, Harvard
Experimental Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Psychology
Aesthetics, Applied Epistemology, Ethics, Experimental Philosophy, Logic, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Psychology
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
Robbins, P., & Jack, A.I. (2026). The genuine problem of consciousness. In A. Raffone (Ed.), Consciousness: A Comprehensive Reference. Elsevier.
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
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). 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. (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. (Fall 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
Monday and Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 pm (Spring 2026)