University of Pittsburgh (1979-1986): Ph.D., April 1986
World Area Of Focus:
• International 25%-49%
Specialization:
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Moral Theory; Metaethics, Theory of Knowledge and the History of Modern Philosophy.
Relevant Experience:
Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburg, 2013-2016
Distinctions:
• 1985-2024 1985-2024 Multiple Tanner Award for Teaching Excellence, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill; Multiple Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra; University of Edinburgh, Professorial Fellow, 2013-2016, Philip Quinn Prize for “service to philosophy and philosophers,” the American Philosophical Association, January 2020. University of Edinburgh, Regular Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2016-present; Founding Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society; Princeton University, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, 2015-2016; Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice, Professorial Fellow, 2022-present; UNC Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2022; UNC Thomas Jefferson Award for 2022.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
25
Relevant Courses Taught:
• PHIL 160 Virtue, Value, and Happiness • PHIL 384 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Gateway • PHIL 462 Contemporary Moral Theory • PHIL 698 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Capstone Seminar
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Prisoners' Dilemma Video for Wi Fi
• 2016 “Hume on the Artificial Virtues,” in the Oxford Handbook of David Hume, edited by Paul Russell (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 435-469.
• 2016 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, co-edited with Jonathan Anomaly, Geoffrey Brennan, and Michael Munger (Oxford University Press, 2016).
• 2015 “Hume on the Artificial Virtues,” in the Oxford Handbook of David Hume, edited by Paul Russell (Oxford University Press, in press).
• 2015 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, co-edited with Jonathan Anomaly, Geoffrey Brennan, and Michael Munger (Oxford University Press, in press).
• 2015 “Desires… and Beliefs… of One’s Own,” with Michael Smith, in Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman, edited by Manuel Vargas and Gideon Yaffe. (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 129-151.
• 2015 “Voting and Causal Responsibility,” with Geoff Brennan, in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, edited by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall (Oxford University Press, in press), pp. 36-59.
• 2014 “Hume and Smith on Sympathy, Approbation, and Moral Judgment,” in Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 30, #1-2 (in press), pp. 208-236. To be reprinted in Sympathy, edited by Eric Schliesser (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• 2014 “Desires… and Beliefs… of One’s Own,” with Michael Smith, in Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman, edited by Manuel Vargas and Gideon Yaffe. (Oxford University Press, in press), pp. 129-151.
• 2014 “Hume and Smith on Sympathy, Approbation, and Moral Judgment,” in Social Philosophy and
Policy, vol. 30, #1-2 (forthcoming).
• 2014 “Desires... and Beliefs... of One’s Own,” with Michael Smith, in Rational and Social Agency: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Bratman, edited by Manuel Vargas and Gideon Yaffe. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• 2012 “Moral Realism” in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh La Follette (Blackwell, 2012), pp. 4365-4382.
• 2012 “Moral Epistemology,” in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh La Follette (Blackwell, 2012), pp. 1674-1688.
• 2010 “Moral Skepticism,” in the Routledge Companion to Epistemology, edited by Sven Bernecker and Duncan Pritchard (Routledge, 2010), pp. 464-474.
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