Education
PhD in Philosophy, MIT, 1995
Teaching
In 2007-2008, I will be teaching two courses, both in the Department of Philosophy. A description of each follows.
PHILOSOPHY 6: Logic and Language
Taught using a self-paced instruction format, this course is an introduction to the study and formal evaluation of arguments. The class covers sentential and predicate logic.
PHILOSOPHY 31: Free Will
Debates about free will center around two questions: (i) can humans have free will even if determinism is true? and (ii) what constitutes free will? We will survey the leading philosophical responses to these questions as well as looking to relevant studies in physics, cognitive psychology, and the neurophysiology of action.
Research Interests
Mind and Brain, Philosophy of Action, Contemporary Ethics