 Associate Professor Philosophy Ohio State University I have been a member of the OSU Philosophy Department since 2006. 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), of which I am more than reasonably proud. More recently, I'm working on papers on the neuroscience of moral motivation, the neuroscience of virtue, conscious thought, deliberation, and consent, among others, and a book tentatively titled Reasons from Atoms. As a teacher, I can typically be found teaching 101: Introduction to Philosophy, 467: Philosophy of Mind, and graduate seminars on consciousness, rationality, and related topics. I’m also involved in coordinating the Department’s efforts to teach its informal reasoning course (Philosophy 150).
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