Joel Anderson

Joel Anderson was educated at Princeton, Northwestern, and Frankfurt Universities and taught at Washington University in St. Louis for nine years before becoming a research lecturer (in 2004) at the philosophy department of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He specializes in moral psychology and social theory, focusing especially issues of autonomy, agency, and normativity. The working title of the book he is currently writing is Scaffolded Autonomy: The Construction, Impairment, and Enhancement of Human Agency. He recently edited a special issue of Philosophical Explorations entitled Free Will as Part of Nature: Habermas and His Critics (March 2007, with commentaries by Searle, Quante, Clarke, and Schroeder) and co-edited, with John Christman, of Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism (Cambridge UP, 2005).