Published Papers
The Agentic Value of Intrusive Thoughts, Philosophers’ Imprint, forthcoming
(2025) Moral Illusions, Philosophical Psychology, Online First, Penultimate Draft
(2025) Idealization in Moral Understanding: Understanding Less but Acting Better, Episteme, Online First, Open Access
(2025) What’s Love (and Belonging) Got to Do With It? Negative and Positive Conative Elements Underlying Gritty Faith, Faith and Philosophy 41(2): 223-238, Open Access
(2022) Situationism, Moral Improvement, and Moral Responsibility. In The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, (with John Doris & Manuel Vargas) Penultimate Draft
(2021) The Focus of Virtue: Attention Broadening in Empirically Informed Accounts of Virtue Cultivation, Philosophical Psychology, 34(8): 1217-1245.
(2021) Book Review – Karen Stohr Minding the Gap, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 18: 546-549.
Papers Under Review
(1) A paper on the psychological relationship between virtues and vices
Papers in Progress
(1) Against Being Your Own Moral Compass: A Socially Extended Account of Moral Understanding
(2) Socially Extended Moral Understanding and Outcome Homogenization in GenAI
(3) Can We Learn to be Virtuous from the Vicious? On the Pedagogical Value of On Moral Learning and the Pedagogical Value of Antihero Protagonists (with Dan Kelly)
(4) A Good Ventee is Hard to Find (with Julia Smith)
(5) An Empirical Defense for Fearing the Fires of Hell (with Tim Pawl)
For paper drafts, please email me at: waggonmr@purdue.edu
Awards
Society of Christian Philosophers Cross Training Fellowship Recipient, $34,000, 2021-2022
American Philosophical Association Sanders Graduate Student Paper Award, $1000, 2020
Young Catholic Scholars Grant Recipient, Washington University in St. Louis Catholic Student Center, $1000, 2017-2018
Maria Waggoner 