Areas of Interest

Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Medical Ethics

Current Research Projects

My research encompasses issues in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and theories of free will and moral responsibility. I am currently revising a book manuscript entitled Doing and Time: Autonomous Agency in the Natural Order.

Recent Publications

• "All the Way: Substantive Source-Historicism for Semi-Compatibilists," Philosophical Books, Volume 47, July 2006, Number 3, 222-234. 

• "That Was Then, This Is Now: Personal History vs. Psychological Structure in Compatibilist Theories of Autonomous Agency," Nous, December 2003, 638-671. 

• "Sour Grapes, Self-Abnegation and Character Building: Non-Responsibility and Responsibility for Self-Induced Preferences," The Monist, 2003, 220-241. 

• "Why Richard Brandt Does not Need Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Other Glad News about Informed Preference Theories in Meta-Ethics," Journal of Value Inquiry, December 2003, 373-394. 

• "Taking Liberties: The Perils of ‘Moralizing’ Liberty and Coercion in Social Theory and Practice," Social Theory and Practice, 2002, 577-610. 

• "Reasons-Responsiveness and Ownership-of-Agency: Fischer and Ravizza’s Historicist Theory of Responsibility," Journal of Ethics, 2002, 199-234. 

• "Thinking with Your Hypothalamus: Reflections on a Cognitive Role for the Reactive Emotions," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2001, 521-541