University of California, Irvine

Faculty Member, Philosophy

The Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy

About

Central current research topics include agreements and promises; authority; collective moral responsibility; obligation; owing; political obligation; rights---in particular claim-rights. Topics of continuing interest include human sociality; acting together; collective beliefs; collective emotions; group languages; social groups; social rules and conventions, game-theory as a tool for the understanding of social phenomena; character.