Education
Ph.D, Harvard University (2000)
Courses
Professor, UCLA
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Moral Demand and Moral Failure, Fall 2016
- Philosophy 153a, Normative Ethics: Moral Demand and Moral Failure, Fall 2016
- Philosophy 244: Topics in Value Theory: Rationality and Action, Spring 2016
- Philosophy 200C: First Year Seminar (Philosophy of Language, with David Kaplan), Spring 2015, Spring 2016
- Philosophy 22w, Introduction to Ethical Theory (Writing Intensive), Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Winter 2016
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Reasons and Agency, Part Two, Fall 2014
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Reasons and Agency, Part One, Spring 2014
- Philosophy 200B: First Year Seminar (Philosophy of Language, with David Kaplan), Winter 2014
- Philosophy 154b, Moral Responsibility and Free Will, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Winter 2015
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Responsibility, Naturalism, and P. F. Strawson, Fall 2012
Associate Professor, UCLA
- Philosophy 154b, Moral Responsibility and Free Will, Spring 2011, Winter 2011, Winter 2009, Fall 2007
- Philosophy 22w, Introduction to Ethical Theory (Writing Intensive), Winter 2011, Winter 2010, Winter 2008
- Philosophy 275, Human Action: Knowledge and Control, Reasons and Causes, Fall 2010
- Philosophy 153b, Topics in Ethical Theory: 20th Century Ethics, Spring 2010
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Awareness and Responsibility, Fall 2009
- Philosophy 275, Human Action: Bratman and Thompson, Spring 2009
- Philosophy 248: Problems in Moral Philosophy: Permissibility and Blame in Scanlon, Fall 2007
Assistant Professor, UCLA
- Philosophy 153b, Topics in Ethical Theory: 20th Century Ethics, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Winter 2003
- Philosophy 200, First Year Graduate Seminar, Spring 2007, Winter 2003
- Philosophy 275, Human Action, Winter 2007, Spring 2005
- Philosophy 154b, Moral Responsibility and Free Will, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Responsibility for Attitudes, Winter 2006
- Philosophy 154, Rationality and Value, Winter 2005
- Philosophy 22, Introduction to Ethical Theory, Fall 2004, Spring 2001
- Philosophy 199, Individual Study (Undergraduate), Spring 2004, Spring 2003, Winter 2001
- Philosophy 153b, Topics in Ethical Theory: Responsibility, Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 2000
- Philosophy 154, Topics in Value Theory: Relativism, Spring 2002
- Philosophy 22w, Introduction to Ethical Theory (Writing Intensive), Winter 2002
- Philosophy 248, Problems in Moral Philosophy: Control and Responsibility (Graduate Seminar), Fall 2001
- Philosophy 246, Topics in Ethical Theory: What We Owe to Each Other (Graduate Seminar), Winter 2001
Publications
- “Reflection and Responsibility,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 42, no 1 (Winter 2014): 3–41.
- “forgiveness, blame, reasons…” Interview with Richard Marshall. 3:am magazine, October 25, 2013.
- “The Use of Reasons in Thought (and the use of earmarks in arguments),” Ethics 124, no. 1 (October 2013): 114–27.
- “Don’t Confuse Technology with Teaching,” Chronicle of Higher Education 63, no. 44 (August 13, 2012): A19
- “Reasons for Action,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 111 (2011): 407–27.
- “Believing at Will,” Belief and Agency, David Hunter, ed., The Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 35 (2009): 149–187.
- “Of Metaphysics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism,” Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon, ed. R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 101–128.
- “Making a Difference,” Social Theory and Practice 37, no. 1 (January 2011): 81–94.
- “The Will as Reason,” Philosophical Perspectives (2009): 201–20.
- “Two Kinds of Agency,” Mental Actions, Lucy O’Brien and Matthew Soteriou, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2009): 138–62.
- “The Reasons of Trust,” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86, no. 2 (June 2008): 213–36.
- “Responsibility for Believing,” Synthese 161, no. 3 (April 2008): 357–73.
- “Sher’s Defense of Blame,” Philosophical Studies 137, no. 1 (January 2008): 19–30.
- “Rational Capacity as a Condition on Blame,” Philosophical Books 48, no. 1 (April 2007): 109–123.
- “Controlling Attitudes,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87, no. 1 (March 2006): 45–74.
- “Forgiveness,” Donald Borchert, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. (Detroit: Macmillan, 2006): 697–98.
- “The Wrong Kind of Reason,” The Journal of Philosophy 102, no. 9 (September 2005): 437–57.
- “The Force and Fairness of Blame,” Philosophical Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2004): 115–48.
- “Articulating an Uncompromising Forgiveness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62, no. 3 (May 2001): 529–55.