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Employment
| Professor |
University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2023- |
| Associate Professor |
University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2019-2023 |
| Affiliate Fellow | Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project, USC | 2022-2024 |
| Visiting Research Prof/Faculty Fellow | CEPA/Murphy Institute, Tulane University | 2020-2021 |
| Assistant Professor | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2014-2019 |
| Law and Philosophy Fellow |
UCLA | 2012-2014 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor |
St. Bonaventure University |
2011-2012 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor | Virginia Tech |
2010-2011 |
| Visiting Assistant Professor | Carleton College |
2009 |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
University of Maryland-College Park |
2008-2010 |
Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland-College Park (2008)
M.A., University of Maryland-College Park (2005)
B.A., University of Virginia (2002)
Books
Simply Responsible: Basic Blame, Scant Praise, and Minimal Agency. Oxford University Press. (2023)
Agency in Mental Disorder: Philosophical Dimensions. Edited volume, with Joshua May. Oxford University Press. (2022)
Journal Articles
“Attending to Blame.” Philosophical Studies 177(5): 1423-1439. (2020)
"Skepticism About the Standing to Blame." Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility 6. (2019)
"Moral Responsibility and Mental Disorder," w/ Josh May. Neuroethics 11: 11-22 (2018).
"Against Personifying the Reasonable Person." Criminal Law & Philosophy 11: 723-732 (2017).
“Manipulation Arguments and the Moral Standing to Blame.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 9: 1-20 (2015).
“Traction without Tracing: A (Partial) Solution for Control-Based Accounts of Moral Responsibility.” European Journal of Philosophy 22: 463-482 (2014).
“Two Faces of Desert.” Philosophical Studies 169: 401-424 (2014).
“The Problem with Manipulation.” Ethics 124: 65-83 (2013).
“Moral Responsibility and Merit.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6: 1-17 (2012).
“Moral Responsibility and Consciousness,” w/ Peter Carruthers. Journal of Moral Philosophy 9: 200-228 (2012)
“The Problem with Negligence.” Social Theory and Practice 35: 577-595 (2009).
Book Chapters
“The Standing to Blame.” In M. Kiener (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Responsibility. (forthcoming)
"Responsibility and Consciousness," w/ Peter Carruthers. In D. Nelkin and D. Pereboom (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility. Oxford University Press. (2022)
"The Boundaries of Negligence." In G. Pavlakos and V. Rodriguez-Blanoc (eds.), Agency, Negligence, and Responsibility. Cambridge University Press. (2021)
“Tracing the Epistemic Condition.” In P. Robichaud and J.W. Wieland (Eds.), Responsibility: The Epistemic Dimension. Oxford University Press. (2017)
“Ethics and Action.” In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge (2015). https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/ethics-and-action.
“Praising and Blaming,” with Mark van Roojen, in Speech Actions, ed. Sbisá and Turner. Mouton de Gruyter: 467-501 (2013).