Academic History
- B.A. Claremont Mckenna College
- M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan
Interests
Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy and Neuroscience, Foundations of Psychology Neuroscience Theory of Action Moral Psychology
Courses Taught
- Philosophy of Mind
- Foundations of Neuroscience
- Neurophilosophy
- Responsibility, Guilt and the Person
- Temptation and the Will
- Knowledge, Mind and Existence
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Introduction to Philosophy
Selected Research and Publications
- "At Permanent Risk: Reasoning and Self-Knowledge in Self-Deception," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65:3 (2002), 576-603.
- "High Anxiety: Barnes on What Moves the Motivated Believer," in Philosophical Psychology, 14:3 (2001), 213-226.
- "Motivated Believing: Wishful and Unwelcome," Nous 34:3 (2000), 348-375.
- "Self-Knowledge, Akrasia, and Self-Criticism," Philosophia 25:1-4 (1997), 267-296.
- "Self-Deception and Internal Irrationality," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56:1 (1996), 31-56.
- "Erstwhile Vindicationism," American Philosophical Quarterly, 32:3 (1995), 205-223.
- "On Belief and the Captivity of the Will," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54:1 (1994) 77-103.