I have been a member of the Rice Philosophy Department since 2015. My work is primarily in the philosophy of mind (desire, mental representation, concepts, consciousness) and in moral psychology (desire, addiction, moral responsibility).
I wrote a dissertation on the nature of mental representation at Stanford University under Fred Dretske, way back in 1998. But those ideas didn't go far, and so I turned to thinking about the nature of desire (wants, wishes) from a similarly naturalistic starting point. Now I'm the author of a book on the nature of desire, Three Faces of Desire (2004: Oxford University Press), and the co-author, with Nomy Ar…
I have been a member of the Rice Philosophy Department since 2015. My work is primarily in the philosophy of mind (desire, mental representation, concepts, consciousness) and in moral psychology (desire, addiction, moral responsibility).
I wrote a dissertation on the nature of mental representation at Stanford University under Fred Dretske, way back in 1998. But those ideas didn't go far, and so I turned to thinking about the nature of desire (wants, wishes) from a similarly naturalistic starting point. Now I'm the author of a book on the nature of desire, Three Faces of Desire (2004: Oxford University Press), and the co-author, with Nomy Arpaly, of a book on the role of desire in moral psychology, In Praise of Desire (2014: Oxford University Press). A third book, on the neuroscience of action and its philosophical interpretation, is in the works.
