Selected Courses

(A complete list of courses taught may be found on my Curriculum Vitae)

Recent Graduate Seminars

• "Recent Woprk on Rational Agency" (Philosophy 290, UC Berkeley, fall 2023)

• "Agency, Value, and the Moral Status of Animals" (Philosophy 290, UC Berkeley, fall 2022)

• “Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives on Morality” (with Jan Engelmann; Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, fall 2020)

• “Anger, Resentment, Forgiveness, Trust: On Blame and Its Normative Assessment” (Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, fall 2019)

• “Free Speech in the Age of Social Media”, Kadish Workshop in Law, Morality, and Political Theory (with Joshua Cohen; Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, fall 2018)

• “Morality, Value, and Future People” (Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, spring 2018)

• “The Moral Nexus” (Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, spring 2015)

• “Recent Work on Reasons and Normativity” (Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, spring 2013)

• “Promises and Promissory Obligation” (with Niko Kolodny; Philosophy 290, UC Berkeley, spring 2012)

• “Humanistic and Empirical Perspectives on Moral Psychology” (Townsend Discovery Seminar, U.C. Berkeley, spring 2010)

• “Practical Knowledge” (Philosophy 290, U.C. Berkeley, spring 2010)

Selected Undergraduate Courses

• “Individual Morality and Social Justice” (Philosophy 2, U.C. Berkeley, spring 2002; fall 2002; fall 2003; fall 2005; spring 2019; spring 2020; spring 2021; spring 2023; spring 2024)

• “Ethical Theories” (Philosophy 104, U.C. Berkeley, fall 2000; summer 2002; summer 2003; summer 2004; summer 2006; fall 2009; fall 2011; spring 2013; fall 2013; fall 2014; fall 2017; spring 2020; spring 2021; fall 2021; spring 2023; spring 2024)

• “Freedom and Responsibility” (Philosophy 109, U.C. Berkeley, fall 2003; fall 2008; summer 2010)

• “Moral Psychology” (Philosophy 107, U.C. Berkeley, fall 2001; fall 2002; fall 2007)

Graduate Advising

At U.C. Berkeley

• Niko Kolodny, Relationships as Reasons (2003); Professor, UC Berkeley

• Jennifer Johnson, On Desire (2003)

• Suzanne Obdrzalek, The Philosopher’s Eros – Reason and Passion in Plato’s Middle Dialogues (2004); Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College

• Wayne Wu, What’s Attention Got to Do with Action? An Essay on Perception and Action (2005); Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

• Hui-chieh Loy, The Moral Philosophy of the Mozi “Core Chapters” (2006); Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

• Agnes Callard, An Incomparabilist Account of Akrasia (2008); Associate Professor, University of Chicago

• Joseph Karbowski, The Methodology of Aristotle’s Inquiry into the Human Good in the Nicomachean Ethics (2009); Humboldt Research Fellow, LMU Munich

• Benjamin Boudreaux, Recent Immigration and the Nation: An Account of the Demands of Assimilation (2011); Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

• Andy Engen, The Reactive Theory of Punishment (2011); Associate Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University

• George Tsai, Moral Judgment and Historical Understanding (2011); Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

• Brian Berkey, Against Moderate Morality: The Demands of Justice in an Unjust World (2012); Associate Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

• Markus Kohl, Kant on Freedom, Nature and Normativity (2012); Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Julia Nefsky, The Morality of Collective Harm (2012); Associate Professor, University of Toronto

• Erich Hatala Matthes, Engaging with the Past: Essays on History, Value, and Practical Reason (2013); Associate Professor, Wellesley College

• Erin Beeghly, Seeing Difference: The Epistemology and Ethics of Stereotyping (2014); Associate Professor, University of Utah

• Eugene Chislenko, Intention and Normative Belief (2016); Assistant Professor, Temple University

• Julian Jonker, In Defense of Directed Duties (2017); Assistant Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

• Jeremiah Carey, Reason, Desire, and the Will: In Defense of a Tripartite Moral Psychology (2017); Adjunct Professor, Siena College

• Dylan Murray, Hijacking Reason: Implicit Attitudes and Moral Responsibility (2017); Postdoctoral Research Associate, Universidad de los Andes

• Quinn Hiroshi Gibson, On the Fringes of Moral Responsibility: Skepticism, Self-Deception, Delusion, and Addiction (2017); Assistant Professor, Clemson University

• Nick French, Moral Obligation, Mutual Recognition, and Our Reasons to be Moral (2020); Assistant Editor, Jacobin

• Kirsten Pickering, Why Answer the Epistemic Challenge? (2020); Research and Program Fellow, Mount Tamalpais College (operating in San Quentin Prison)

• Omar Fakhri, How To Stand Your Ground in the Face of Ethical Disagreement (2021); Assistant Professor, Bethel University

• Sophia Dandelet, Deciding What You Know: Ethical Norms in Epistemic Inquiry (2021); Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU; Assistant Professor, Cambridge University

• Daniel Khokhar, Address and Response: The Normativity of Requesting, Begging, and Commanding (2022); Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Center for Bioethics

• Tyler Haddow (ongoing)

• Scott Casleton (ongoing)

• Monika Chao (ongoing)

• Edward Schwartz (ongoing)

• Christian Nakazawa (ongoing)

• Sarah Vernallis (ongoing)

• Virginia Foggo (ongoing)

• Milan Mossé (ongoing)

• Russell McIntosh (ongoing)

At the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Armin Erkens, Zur neoaristotelisch inspirierten Kritik an der kantianischen Konzeption des Moralischen: Bernard Williams und das Moralsystem (1998)

• Ulrike Heuer, Gründe und Motive (1999); Associate Professor, University College London

• Kirsten Petzold, Praktische Gründe: Ein Vergleich dreier paradigmatischer Theorien (2000)

• Elif Özmen, Moral, Rationalität, und gelungenes Leben (2003); Professor, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

• Ian Jennings, Against State Neutrality: Raz, Rawls, and Philosophical Perfectionism (2009)

• Benjamin Kiesewetter, The Normativity of Rationality (2014); Professor, Universität Bielefeld

• Daniele Bruno, Because You Promised: A Non-Reductive Account of Promissory Normativity (2021); Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin