I am Professor of Moral Philosophy and Epistemology at the University of Edinburgh.
Before coming to Edinburgh, I taught at
Brandeis University for 13 years.
My philosophical interests range widely. I have written about agency, the emotions, trust, disagreement, self-knowledge, and existentialism. In recent years, I have been teaching topics in the history of late modern philosophy and its relevance for contemporary thought.
I received my Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2007 and my A.B. from Harvard University in 2001. I also spent several years as a visitor at the University of Leipzig and, more recently, at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Berlin.
I recently wrote a piece on grief for the digital magazine Psyche. It’s a short presentation of my views on grief that I develop in my book On the Temporality of Emotions: An Essay on Grief, Anger, and Love (OUP, 2022). The book is reviewed in Mind and in Ethics, and I talk about it on the New Books Network and Recall This Book.
The article “Disagreement and Alienation,” co-authored with my dear friend Stephen J. White, has been selected for the 2023 Philosopher’s Annual. Steve’s Responsibility and the Demands of Morality: Collected Papers is now published by Oxford University Press.
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