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Employment
- Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley (from July 1999)
- Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (July 1996-September 2000)
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania (July 1995-July 1996)
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania (July 1988-July 1995)
- Instructor in Philosophy, Wesleyan University (July 1987-July 1988)
- Research Associate, Georgetown University (August 1979-August 1980)
Visiting Positions
- Erskine Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (March 2005)
- Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (June-July 2003)
- Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (March-April 2000)
- Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Universitat Bielefeld (1994-1995)
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- Humboldt Research Award ("Forschungspreis") from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2004-2005)
- Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Spring 2001
- Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow for 1990-91
- Summer Research Grants from the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation (1989; 1992; 1993)
- Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (at Princeton)
- Overall Distinction on Oxford B.Phil. (thesis and exams)
- Carroll A. Wilson Fellowship (for study at Oxford)
- Phi Beta Kappa at Williams (junior year)
Education
Princeton University, Ph.D. (1988), Philosophy
University of Oxford, B.Phil. (1983), Philosophy
Williams College, B.A. (1979), History of Ideas, summa cum laude
Area of Specialization
Moral Philosophy
Other Areas of Competence
Social and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Action; Philosophy of Law; Philosophical Psychology; The History of Ethics; Skepticism
Professional Service
Chair, Department of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, 2005-present.
Associate Editor, Philosophy and Public Affairs.
Member, Editorial Board, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Member, Advisory Board, Philosophical Explorations.
Member, fellowship selection panel of the American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-2004.
Member, Program Committee of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1996-1998.
Articles refereed for the Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, the British Society for Ethical Theory, Ethics, Nous, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosopher's Imprint, Philosophical Explorations, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Book manuscripts refereed for Acumen, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge and New York), Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press (Oxford and New York), Polity Press, Princeton University Press, and Walter de Gruyter.
Research proposals refereed for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Updated on Thu Jun 22 16:56:07 -0700 2006 by R. Jay Wallace