Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleProfessor Emeritus

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationLatin American & Latino Studies
Environmental Studies Department
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Web SiteDaniel

Primary Office LocationCowell College Academic Building
Off Campus

Mail StopCowell Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles

Research Interests

Kant, moral philosophy, environmental ethics, history of modern philosophy, Wittgenstein

Selected Publications

• "Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind," Oxford University Press, 2012, co-edited with Jonathan Ellis
• "The Role of Intuition in Some Ethically Hard Cases," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2011, see also AJP online, Feb 2010
• "The Will as Practical Reason and the Problem of Akrasia," The Review of Metaphysics Vol. LXII, 2009
• "Rebutting Formally Valid Counterexamples to the Humean 'Is-Ought' Dictum, " Synthese Vol. 164, see also Synthese online, August 2007
• "Kant's Theory of Moral Motivation" Westview Press, 2000