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2004-pressent: Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia

2003: Daniel Taylor Visiting Fellow, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand (January)

2003: Erskine Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (March)

2001: Visiting Professor, laureate appointment, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA (January-May)

2001: Hollan Distinguished Visitor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March)

2001: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellow for Research in Japan at Kyoto, Osaka Dental, Kwansei Gakuin, Senshu and Keio Universities (June-July)

1999: Old Dominion Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Lecturer in the Council of Humanities, Princeton University, USA (February-June)

1998: Visiting Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden (January)

1998: Daniel Taylor Visiting Fellow, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand (April)

1997: Dorothy Ford Wiley Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA (January-May)

1996: James B. and Grace J. Nelson Philosopher-in-Residence, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (October)

1995: Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, England (April)

1993: Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (January-December)

1992: Department Visitor, Department of Philosophy, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (July)

1988: Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (May-August)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2003: Awarded Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and humanities in the study of philosophy.

2001: Awarded American Philosophical Association Book Prize 1994-6 for The Moral Problem

2000: Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

1997: Elected Fellow of the Academy of Humanities in Australia

1988: Awarded the Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptorship at Princeton University

1982: Awarded Proxime Accessit, John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy.

PUBLICATIONS

(i) Books

1. The Moral Problem (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994) (click here for more information). To be translated and published in Japan by Nakanishiya Shuppan. Chapter 6 is reprinted under the title "A Defence of Moral Realism" in Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Fourth Edition edited by Louis J.Pojman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2001).

2. Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) (with Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit) (click here for more information).

3. Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) (click here for more information)

(ii) Edited Books

1. Meta-Ethics (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1995) (click here for more information)

2. Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) (co-edited with R.Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, and Samuel Scheffler). (click here for more information)

(iii) Articles

1. "Individuating Actions: A Reply to McCullagh and Thalberg" in Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol.75, No.4, December 1977, pp.209-212 (co-authored with Robert Elliot).

2. "Descartes, God and the Evil Spirit" in Sophia Vol.17, No.3, October 1978, pp. 33-36 (co-authored with Robert Elliot)

3. "Did Socrates Kill Himself Intentionally?" in Philosophy Vol.55, No.212, April 1980, pp.253-254.

4. "Actions, Attempts and Internal Events" in Analysis Vol.43, No.3, June 1983, pp.142-146.

5. "Peacocke on Red and Red´" in Synthese Vol.68, No.3, September 1986, pp.559-576.

6. "Should We Believe in Emotivism?" in Fact, Science and Morality: Essays on A.J.Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic edited by Graham Macdonald and Crispin Wright (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), pp.289-310.

7. "The Humean Theory of Motivation" in Mind Vol. 96, No. 381, January 1987, pp.36-61. Reprinted in Reason, Emotion and Will edited by R.Jay Wallace (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999) pp.3-28. Reprinted in Handlungen und Handlungsgruende edited by Ralf Stoecker (Paderborn: mentis Verlag GmbH, 2002), translation by Johannes Schulte, pp.125-156.

8. "Reason and Desire" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Vol.88, 1987-8, pp.243-256.

9. "On Humeans, Anti-Humeans and Motivation: A Reply to Pettit" in Mind Vol.97, No.388, October 1988, pp.589-595.

10. "Dispositional Theories of Value" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 63, 1989, pp.89-111.

11. "Backgrounding Desire" in The Philosophical Review Vol. 99, No. 4. October 1990, pp.565-592 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

12. "Realism" in Companion to Ethics edited by Peter Singer (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), pp. 399-410. Reprinted in shortened form in Ethics: The Oxford Reader edited by Peter Singer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) pp.170-176.

13. "Valuing: Desiring or Believing?" in Reduction, Explanation and Realism edited by David Charles and Kathleen Lennon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp.323-360.

14. "Practical Unreason" in Mind Vol.102, No.405, January 1993, pp.53-79 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

15. "Objectivity and Moral Realism: On the Significance of the Phenomenology of Moral Experience" in Reality, Representation and Projection edited by John Haldane and Crispin Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp.235-255.

16. "Colour, Transparency, Mind-Independence" in Reality, Representation and Projection edited by John Haldane and Crispin Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp.269-277.

17. "Brandt on Self-Control" in Rationality, Rules and Utility: New Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Richard B.Brandt edited by Brad Hooker (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993) pp.33-50 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

18. "Why Expressivists About Value Should Love Minimalism About Truth" in Analysis Vol.54, No.1, January 1994, pp.1-12.

19. "Minimalism, Truth-Aptness and Belief" in Analysis Vol.54, No.1, January 1994, pp.21-26.

20. "Minimalism and Truth-Aptness" in Mind July 1994, pp.287-302 (co-authored with Frank Jackson and Graham Oppy).

21. "Philosophy and Commonsense: The Case of Weakness of Will" in Philosophy in Mind: The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind edited by Michaelis Michael and John O'Leary-Hawthorne (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994) pp.141-157 (co-authored with Jeanette Kennett).

22. "Internal Reasons" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol.55, No.1, March 1995, pp.109-131. Reprinted in Reason, Emotion and Will edited by R.Jay Wallace (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999) pp.161-183.

23. "Introduction" in Meta-Ethics edited by Michael Smith (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995) pp. xiii-xxi.

24. "Internalism's Wheel" in Ratio Vol.8, No.3, December 1995, pp.277-302. Reprinted in Truth in Ethics edited by Brad Hooker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) pp.69-94.

25. "Reply to Ingmar Persson's Critical Notice of The Moral Problem" in Theoria, Vol. 61, Part 2, 1995, pp. 159-181.

26. "Frog and Toad Lose Control" in Analysis Vol.56, No.2, April 1996, pp. 63-73 (co-authored with Jeanette Kennett).

27. "Normative Reasons and Full Rationality: Reply to Swanton" in Analysis Vol.56, No.3, July 1996, pp.160-168.

28. "The Argument for Internalism: Reply to Miller" in Analysis Vol.56, No.3, July 1996, pp.175-184.

29. "Freedom in Belief and Desire" in Journal of Philosophy Vol.93, No.9, September 1996, pp.429-449 (co-authored with Philip Pettit). Reprinted in Human Action, Deliberation and Causation edited by Jan Bransen and Stefaan Cuypers (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998) pp.89-112. Reprinted in Free Will, 2nd edition, edited by Gary Watson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp.388-407.

30. "Synchronic Self-Control is Always Non-Actional" in Analysis, Vol.57, No.2, April 1997, pp.123-131 (co-authored with Jeanette Kennett)

31. "In Defence of The Moral Problem: A Reply to Brink, Copp and Sayre-McCord" in Ethics Symposium on Michael Smith's The Moral Problem Vol.108, No.1, October 1997, pp.84-119.

32. "Parfit's P" in Reading Parfit edited by Jonathan Dancy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997) pp.71-95 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

33. "A Theory of Freedom and Responsibility" in Ethics and Practical Reason edited by Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) pp.293-319

34. "How not to be Muddled by a Meddlesome Muggletonian" in Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol.75, No.4, December 1997 pp.511-527 (co-authored with John Bigelow)

35. "Le Descriptivisme et le Naturelisme Moral" in Dictionnaire de Philosophie Morale edited by Monique Canto Sperber (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), pp.390-397.

36. "Global Response-Dependence and Noumenal Realism" in The Monist Special Issue on Secondary Qualities Generalized edited by Peter Menzies, Vol.81, No.1, January 1998 pp.85-111 (co-authored with Daniel Stoljar)

37. "Galen Strawson and the Weather Watchers" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol.58, No.2, June 1998 pp.449-454

38. "Response-Dependence Without Reduction" in European Review of Philosophy, Special Issue on Response-Dependence edited by Roberto Casati and Christine Tappolet, Vol.3, 1998 pp.85-108.

39. "Ethics and the A Priori: A Modern Parable" in Philosophical Studies, Special Issue on the A Priori edited by John Hawthorne, Vol.92, April 1998 pp.149-174.

40. "The Possibility of Philosophy of Action" in Human Action, Deliberation and Causation edited by Jan Bransen and Stefaan Cuypers (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998) pp.17-41.

41. "The Definition of 'Moral'" in Singer and his Critics edited by Dale Jamieson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) pp.38-63.

42. "The Non-Arbitrariness of Reasons: Reply to Lenman" in Utilitas Vol.11, No.2, July 1999 pp.178-193.

43. "Search for the Source" in Philosophical Quarterly Vol.49, No.196, July 1999 pp.384-394.

44. "Morality and Law" in The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia edited by Christopher B.Gray (New York: Garland, 1999) pp.567a-570b.

45. "Does the Evaluative Supervene on the Natural?" in Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin edited by Roger Crisp and Brad Hooker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp.91-114.

46. "Moral Realism" in Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory edited by Hugh LaFollette (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000) pp.15-37.

47. "Global Consequentialism" in Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader edited by Brad Hooker, Elinor Mason and Dale E. Miller (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000) pp.121-133 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

48. "Ethical Particularism and Patterns" in Moral Particularism edited by Brad Hooker and Margaret Little (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000) pp.79-99 (co-authored with Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit).

49. "Quelques énigmes concernant le contrôle de soi" in Philosophiques Vol.27, No.2, Autumn 2000, pp 287-304.

50. "The Reality of Moral Expectations: A Note of Caution" in Philosophical Explorations Vol.3, No.3, 2000 pp.232-238

51. "Free Will and Action" in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2001)

52. "Normative Skepticism" in Dialogue Vol.20, No.3, 2001 pp.25-30.

53. "Some Not-Much-Discussed Problems for Non-Cognitivism in Ethics" in Ratio Vol.14, No.2, June 2001, pp.93-115 (starred contribution).

54. "Irresistible Impulse" in Intention in Law and Philosophy edited by Ngaire Naffine, Rosemary Owens and John Williams (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001) pp.37-56.

55. "Immodest Consequentialism and Character" in Utilitas, Special Issue on Consequentialism and Character edited by Julia Driver, Vol. 13, No.2, July 2001 pp.173-194.

56. "Moral Responsibility and Self-Control" in Relating to Responsibility: Essays in honour of Tony Honore on his 80th Birthday edited by Peter Cane and John Gardner (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001), pp.1-19.

57. "The Resentment Argument" in Exploring Practical Philosophy edited by Dan Egonsson, Jonas Josefsson, Björn Petersson, Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp.109-122.

58. "The Incoherence Argument: Reply to Schafer-Landau" in Analysis, Vol. 61, No. 3, July 2001, pp.254-266.

59. "Freedom of Action and Will" in Jissentetsugaku Kenkyu, No.24, November 2001, pp.54-78 (translated into Japanese by HAYASHI Yoshinori).

60. "Which Passions Rule?" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol.65, No.1, July 2002 pp.157-163.

61. "Exploring the Implications of the Dispositional Theory of Value", Philosophical Issues: Realism and Relativism, 12, 2002, pp.329-347.

62. "Gert's Complex Hybrid Conception of Rationality" forthcoming in Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Critical Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Audi (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 109-123.

63. "Evaluation, Uncertainty and Motivation" in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Special Issue edited by James Lenman, Vol.5, No.3, September 2002, pp.305-320.

64. "Is There a Lockean Argument Against Expressivism?" in Analysis, 63, 2003, pp.76-86 (co-authored with Daniel Stoljar).

65. "Rational Capacities" in Weakness of Will and Varieties of Practical Irrationality edited by Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp.17-38.

66. "Neutral and Relative Value after Moore" in Ethics, Centenary Symposium on G.E.Moore's Principia Ethica, Vol.113, No.3, April 2003, pp.576-598.

67. "Humeanism, Psychologism, and the Normative Story" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 67, 2003, pp.460-467.

68. "Humean Rationality" in The Handbook of Rationality edited by Alfred Mele and Piers Rawling (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp.75-92.

69. "The Truth in Deontology" in Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz edited by R.Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler and Michael Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp.153-175 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

70. "Instrumental Desires, Instrumental Rationality" in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78, 2004, pp.93-109.

71. "External Reasons" forthcoming in McDowell and His Critics edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald (Oxford: Blackwell) (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

72. "Is there a Nexus between Reasons and Rationality?" forthcoming in Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science and Humanities: New Trends in Moral Psychology edited by Sergio Tenenbaum (Amsterdam: Rodophi).

73. "The Stucture of Orthonomy" forthcoming in Philosophy. To be reprinted in Action and Agency edited by Helen Steward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

74. "Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection" forthcoming in Jackson and His Critics edited by Ian Ravenscroft (Oxford: Blackwell).

75. "Norms and Regulation: Three Issues" forthcoming in Philosophical Studies

(iv) Short encyclopedia and dictionary entries

1. "Emotivism" in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Volume 3 edited by Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 1998) pp.124-127

2. "Reasons and Causes" in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Volume 8 edited by Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 1998) pp.291-293

3. "Direction of Fit" in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy edited by Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) p.237.

4. "Moral Rationalism" in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy edited by Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) pp.587-8.

(v) Reviews

1. Review of Christopher Peacocke's Sense and Content (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy September 1985 pp.372-5.

2. Review of Simon Blackburn's Spreading the Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy December 1985 pp.543-6.

3. "Back to basics", a review of Peter Singer's How are we to live? Ethics in an age of self- interest (Melbourne: Text Publishing Co. 1993), in Eureka Street, June-July 1994 pp.43-5.

4. "Goodness within reason", a review of Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence and Warren Quinn, eds, Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), in Times Literary Supplement, 19 July 1996 pp.26-7.

5. "Smith reviews Mele" Brown Electronic Article Review Service, Jamie Dreier and David Estlund, editors, World Wide Web, (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/homepage. html) posted 28 April 1997.

6. "For and against Descartes", a review of Jennifer Hornsby's Simple Mindedness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), in Times Literary Supplement, 26 June 1998 p.11.

7. "The Academy of Hard Knocks", a review of Tony Coady, ed, Why Universities Matter (Allen and Unwin, 2000), in Eureka Street, March 2000 pp.36-7.

8. "Succinct answers to questions of identity", a review of Brian Garrett's Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness (Routledge, 1998), in ANU Reporter 14 April 2000, p.5.

MAJOR PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1995

"Instrumental Desires, Instrumental Rationality", delivered as part of a symposium at the Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society, University of Kent at Canterbury, July 2004.

"The Structure of Orthonomy", "Rational Capacities", and "Reasons and Values", delivered as a series of three Erskine Lectures, University of Canterbury, March 2003.

"What Hume Taught Us about the Relationship between Reasons and Rationality" presented at Hume, Motivation, 'Is' and 'Ought', Otago University, January 2003.

"Reasons and Rationality" presented at Workshop on Jonathan Dancy's Practical Reality, Georgetown University, November 2002.

"The Structure of Orthonomy" presented at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, Action and Agency, St John's College, Oxford, September 2002.

"Neutral and Relative Value after Moore" presented at G.E.Moore's Principia Ethica: A Century Later, Georgia State University, April 2002.

"Evaluation, Uncertainty and Motivation" presented as an Invited Paper at the British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference, Glasgow University, July 2001.

"Rational Capacities" presented at Weakness of Will and Varieties of Practical Irrationality, University of Montreal, May 2001.

"Desires...and Beliefs...of One's Own" (co-authored by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord) presented at Reasons of One's Own, Utrecht University, April 2001.

"Moral and Legal Responsibility" presented at Responsibility in Law and Ethics: A Seminar in Honour of Tony Honoré, RSSS, ANU November 1999.

"In Search of the Philosopher's Stone: The Resentment Argument" presented at Emotion and Value, Ohio State University, October 1999.

"Solidarity Forever" presented at Richard Rorty, Humanities Research Centre, ANU, July 1999.

"Bernard Gert's Complex Hybrid Conception of Rationality" presented at A Conference on Gert's Moral Theory, Dartmouth College, May 1999.

"From Meta-Ethics to Normative Ethics" presented at Humean Ethics, The Second Warren Quinn Memorial Conference, UCLA, October 1998. Also presented to a meeting of the Jowett Society at Balliol College, Oxford, November 1998.

"Ethical Particularism and Patterns" presented at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Meetings in Sydney, July 1998.

"Explaining Actions" presented as part of workshops on practical reason held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, and at SCASSS, Uppsala, Sweden, January 1998.

"An Example of Pure Practical Reason" presented as part of an invited symposium on The Possibility of Practical Reason at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Pittsburgh, USA, April 1997. Also presented at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Meetings in Auckland, July 1997.

"Some Puzzles about Self-Control", presented as The Dorothy Ford Wiley Lecture at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 1997.

"Ethics and the A Priori: A Modern Parable" presented as The Carswell Lecture, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, February 1997.

"A Puzzle about Self-Control", presented as The Nelson Lecture at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1996.

"Do We Need Philosophy of Action?" presented as a public lecture at Human Action and Causality, an international conference held at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, April 1996.

"In Defence of The Moral Problem" presented as part of an Author Meets Critics session on my The Moral Problem at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meetings, Seattle, USA, April 1996.

"Freedom, Reason and the Analysis of Value" presented at Ethics and Practical Reason, an international conference held at University of St Andrews, Scotland, March 1995.

PAPERS PRESENTED SINCE 1995

University of Bristol (March 1995)
University College, London (March 1995)
St Andrews University (March 1995)
Australian National University, RSSS (March 1995)
Monash University (April 1995)
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Armidale (July 1995)
Monash University (December 1995)

ANU, RSSS (February 1996),
American Philosophical Association Central Division, Seattle (April 1996)
Oriel College Oxford University, (April 1996),
University of Colorado at Boulder (April 1996)
Utrecht University (April 1996)
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Brisbane (July 1996)
Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor (October 1996)
Macquarie University (October 1996)
University of Wollongong (November 1996)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (January 1997)
University of Kansas, Lawrence (February 1997)
University of Kansas, Lawrence(February 1997)
Davidson College (February 1997)
Wake Forest University (February 1997)
North Carolina Philosophical Association, Elon College (February 1997)
Brown University (February 1997)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March 1997)
East Carolina University (March 1997)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln (April 1997)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (April 1997)
American Philosophical Association Central Division, Pittsburgh (April 1997)
Australasian Assocition of Philosophy, Auckland (July 1997)
Macquarie University (September 1997)
Monash University (October 1997)

Humboldt University (January 1998)
SCASSS, Uppsala, Sweden (January 1998)
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney (July 1998)
ANU, The Faculties (October 1998)
UCLA (November 1998)
Balliol College, Oxford (November 1998)
University of Sheffield (November 1998)

Rutgers University (February 1999)
University of Montreal (February 1999)
Princeton University (February 1999)
Stanford University (March 1999)
University of California, Davis (March 1999)
Bowling Green State University (March 1999)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (April 1999)
Columbia University (April 1999)
Dartmouth (May 1999)
ANU, Humanities Research Centre (July 1999)
ANU, The Faculties (August 1999)
Adelaide University (October 1999)
Ohio State University (October 1999)
ANU, Law RSSS (November 1999)

University of Arizona, Tucson (January 2001)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March 2001)
University of California at Berkeley (April 2001)
Arizona State University (April 2001)
Utrecht University (April 2001)
University of Montreal (May 2001)
Kyoto University (June 2001)
Osaka Dental University (July 2001)
Kwansei Gakuin University (July 2001)
Senshu University (July 2001)
Keio University (July 2001)
Glasgow University (July 2001)
Flinders University (August 2001)
Stanford University (October 2001)
Monash University (November 2001)

University of Arizona (March 2002)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March 2002)
Georgia State University (April 2002)
St Andrews University (April 2002)
Oriel College, Oxford (May 2002)
Oxford University (May 2002)
Monash University (June 2002)
Australian National University (July 2002)
Oxford University (September 2002)
Lund University (September 2002)
University of Copenhagen (September 2002)
Sydney University (October 2002)
Melbourne University (October 2002)
Australian National University (October 2002)
Georgetown University (November 2002)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (November 2002)

University of Otago (January 2003)
University of Canterbury (March 2003)
University of Otago (March 2003)
Columbia University (April 2003)
New York University (April 2003)
Australian National University (June 2003)
Monash University (August 2003)
MIT (September 2003)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September 2003)
Australian National University (December 2003)

Monash University (February 2004)
UWA (March 2004)
Melbourne University (April 2004)
Boston University (April 2004)
University of Kent at Canterbury (July 2004)
University of Adelaide (August 2004)

TEACHING SINCE 1995

Supervision of PhD students in the Philosophy Program, RSSS, and the Philosophy Department, The Faculties, ANU (1995-present). Supervision of fourth year honours students for the Philosophy Department, The Faculties, ANU (1998, 2003, 2004). Lectures in moral philosophy at The Faculties, Australian National University (1995, 1997, 2004); Monash University (1995); University of Bristol (1995); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1997); University of Kansas at Lawrence (1997); University of Uppsala (1998); Princeton University (1999); University of Arizona, Tucson (2001); University of Canterbury (2003).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE

Member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (1989-present); Information Officer and Member of Council for the Australasian Association of Philosophy (1995-2000)

Member of the American Philosophical Association (1985-1989, 1994-1997, 2000-present)

Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2002-present).

Member of the Editorial Board of The Philosophers' Imprint (2000-present) Ethics (1996-present), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1993-2001), and Journal of Political Philosophy (1993-5).

Member of the Board of Advisors of Philosophical Explorations (1996-present).

Member of the Advisory Panel of the European Journal of Philosophy (2003-present).

Reviews Editor of Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1989-92)

Participant, Academy of Science workshop on the ethics of human cloning; author of the Academy of Social Science's response to the Australian Health Ethics Committee's draft document advising the Minister for Health on the ethics of human cloning (1998)

Occasional contributor to Eureka Street, Times Literary Supplement; occasionally interviewed about higher education matters in The Age, The Canberra Times.

Last updated 6 September 2004