Books
 | What is Addiction? MIT, 2010. Edited by Don Ross, Harold Kincaid, David Spurrett & Peter Collins. |
 | Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling. MIT, 2008. Don Ross, Rudy Vuchinich, Carla Sharp and David Spurrett. |
 | Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context. MIT, 2007. Edited by Don Ross, David Spurrett, Harold Kincaid and G. Lynn Stephens. |
 | Everything Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized. OUP, 2007. James Ladyman and Don Ross, with David Spurrett and John Collier. |
Chapters and Articles (Selected, since 2012)
(To be added incrementally.)
Spurrett, D., Colombetti, G., and Sutton, J. (2025) Introduction: Scaffolding Bad – Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm. Topoi. (online first)
Spurrett, D (2025) The Priority of Preferences in the Evolution of Minds. South African Journal of Philosophy. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2024) On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies. Topoi, 43: 821-832.
Spurrett, D. & Brancazio, N. (2024) Fashioning Affordances: A Critical Approach to Clothing as an Affordance Transforming Technology. Philosophical Psychology, 37(7): 1899-1923. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Timms, R. & Spurrett, D. (2023) Hostile Scaffolding. Philosophical Papers 52(1): 53-82. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2021) The Descent of Preferences. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72(2):485-510. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2021), Time and the Decider (review of Shadmehr & Ahmed), Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44: e133. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2018) Affording Affordances. Teorema 37(3):187-202. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2017) Physicalism as an empirical hypothesis. Synthese 194:3347-3360.
Spurrett, D. (2016) Does Intragenomic conflict predict Intrapersonal conflict? Biology and Philosophy 31(3):313-333. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2015) The Natural History of Desire, South African Journal of Philosophy 34(3):304-313. [Preprint on PhilPapers.]
Spurrett, D. (2014) Philosophers should be interested in ‘common currency’ claims in the cognitive and behavioural sciences. The South African Journal of Philosophy 33(2):211-221.
Spurrett, D. (2014) Cui bono? Selfish goals need to pay their way. (on Huang and Bargh) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37(2):155-156.
Dellis, A.M., Sharp, C., Hofmeyr, A., Schwardman, P.M., Spurrett, D., Rousseau, J.M. & Ross, D. (2014) Criterion-related and construct validity of the Problem Gambling Severity Index in a sample of South African gamblers. South African Journal of Psychology 44(2):243-257.
Dellis, A., Spurrett, D., Hofmeyr, A., Sharp, C., and Ross, D. (2013) Gambling Participation and Problem Gambling Severity among Rural and Peri-Urban Poor South African Adults in KwaZulu-Natal. Journal of Gambling Studies 29(3):417-433.
Spurrett, D. (2012) What is to be done? Why reward is difficult to do without. (Commentary on Clark in Behavioral and Brain Sciences) Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 3:142.
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