MICHAEL SMITH

1 July 2009

Personal

Michael Andrew Smith; born Melbourne, Australia, 23 July 1954; married to Monica with three adult sons, Jeremy, Julian, and Samuel; Australian citizen; USA Permanent Resident.

Current Position

McCosh Professor of Philosophy and Associated Faculty Member of the Department of Politics, Princeton University.

Contact

work: Department of Philosophy Princeton University 1879 Hall Princeton, NJ, 08544 USA home: 27 Bank Street Princeton, NJ, 08542 USA

office: +1-609-258-4306 fax: +1-609-258-1502 email: msmith@princeton.edu url: http://www.princeton.edu/~msmith/ home: +1-609-683-0971 cell/mobile: +1-609-651-1836

Education

BA with first class honours (Monash) 1975

DipEd (Monash) 1979

MA (Monash) 1980

BPhil (Oxford) 1983

DPhil (Oxford) 1989

Full Employment History

2009 - present: Department of Politics, Princeton University (Associated Faculty Member)

2004 - present: Department of Philosophy, Princeton University (Professor of Philosophy September 2004-June 2009, McCosh Professor of Philosophy July 2009-present)

1995 - 2004: Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (Senior Fellow in Philosophy 1995-1996, Professor of Philosophy 1997-August 2004)

1989 - 1994: Department of Philosophy, Monash University (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy July 1989-90, Planning Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics and Policy Studies 1991; Reader in Philosophy 1992-1994)

1985 - 1989: Department of Philosophy, Princeton University (Assistant Professor of Philosophy September 1985-June 1989)

1984 - 1985: Department of Philosophy, Monash University (Lecturer in Philosophy)

1984 Wadham College, Oxford (Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy)

1980 - 1981: Secondary School Teacher, Melbourne Boys High School.

Visiting Positions

2008 Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (January-August)

2005 - 2006: Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

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

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)

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

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)

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

2009 Named McCosh Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

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 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). Pp.xiii, 226.

To be translated and published in China by Zhejiang University Press.

Translated by Noriaki Katagi and published in Japan (Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2006; pp.xvii, 308).

Chapter 6 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). Chapter 2 pp.60-76 reprinted under the title "The Externalist Challenge" in Arguing about Metaethics edited by Andrew Fisher and Simon Kirchin (London: Routledge, 2006). Chapter 2 reprinted under the title "The Externalist Challenge" in Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology edited by Russ Shafer-Landau and Terence Cuneo (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).

2. Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004) (co-authored with Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit). Pp.xii, 360. (See articles list for details.)

3. Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Pp.xii, 388. (See articles list for details.)

(ii) Edited books:

1. Meta-Ethics (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995). Pp.xxi, 576.

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). Pp.xi, 429.

3. Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) (co-edited with Frank Jackson). Pp.xii, 904.

4. Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) (co-edited with Geoffrey Brennan, Robert Goodin, and Frank Jackson). Pp.x, 357.

(iii) Articles:

1. "Individuating Actions: A Reply to McCullagh and Thalberg" in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 75, 1977, pp.209-212 (co-authored with Robert Elliot).

2. "Descartes, God and the Evil Spirit" in Sophia, 17, 1978, pp. 33-36 (co-authored with Robert Elliot)

3. "Did Socrates Kill Himself Intentionally?" in Philosophy, 55, 1980, pp.253-254.

4. "Actions, Attempts and Internal Events" in Analysis, 43, 1983, pp.142-146.

5. "Peacocke on Red and Red´" in Synthese, 68, 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, 96, 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. Reprinted in Arguing about Metaethics edited by Andrew Fisher and Simon Kirchin (London: Routledge, 2006).

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

9. "On Humeans, Anti-Humeans and Motivation: A Reply to Pettit" in Mind, 97, 1988, pp.589-595.

Reprinted in Arguing about Metaethics edited by Andrew Fisher and Simon Kirchin (London: Routledge, 2006). Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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

11. "Backgrounding Desire" in The Philosophical Review, 99, 1990, pp.565-592 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

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. Reprinted in Ethical Theory edited by Russ Shafer-Landau (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)

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, 102, 1993, pp.53-79 (co-authored with Philip Pettit).

Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

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.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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).

Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

18. "Why Expressivists About Value Should Love Minimalism About Truth" in Analysis, 54, 1994, pp.1-12.

Reprinted in in Arguing about Metaethics edited by Andrew Fisher and Simon Kirchin (London: Routledge, 2006).

19. "Minimalism, Truth-Aptness and Belief" in Analysis, 54, 1994, pp.21-26.

20. "Minimalism and Truth-Aptness" in Mind, 103, 1994, pp.287-302 (co-authored with Frank Jackson and Graham Oppy).

Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

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).

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

22. "Internal Reasons" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 55, 1995, pp.109-131.

Reprinted in Reason, Emotion and Will edited by R.Jay Wallace (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1999) pp.161-183. Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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

24. "Internalism's Wheel" in Ratio, 8, 1995, pp.277-302.

Reprinted in Truth in Ethics edited by Brad Hooker (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) pp.69-94. Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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

26. "Frog and Toad Lose Control" in Analysis, 56, 1996, pp. 63-73 (co-authored with Jeanette Kennett).

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

27. "Normative Reasons and Full Rationality: Reply to Swanton" in Analysis, 56, 1996, pp.160-168.

28. "The Argument for Internalism: Reply to Miller" in Analysis, 56, 1996, pp.175-184.

29. "Freedom in Belief and Desire" in Journal of Philosophy, 93, 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. Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

30. "Synchronic Self-Control is Always Non-Actional" in Analysis, 57, 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, 108, 1997, pp.84-119.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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

Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

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

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

34. "How not to be Muddled by a Meddlesome Muggletonian" in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 75, 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, 81, 1998, pp.85-111 (co-authored with Daniel Stoljar)

37. "Galen Strawson and the Weather Watchers" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 58, 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, 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, 92, 1998, pp.149-174.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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, 11, 1999 pp.178-193.

43. "Search for the Source" in Philosophical Quarterly, 49, 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.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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).

Reprinted in Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith Mind, Morality and Explanation: Selected Collaborations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

49. "Quelques énigmes concernant le contrôle de soi" in Philosophiques 27, 2000, pp 287-304.

50. "The Reality of Moral Expectations: A Note of Caution" in Philosophical Explorations, 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, 20, 2001 pp.25-30.

53. "Some Not-Much-Discussed Problems for Non-Cognitivism in Ethics" in Ratio, 14, 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, 13, 2001 pp.173-194.

56. "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, 61, 2001, pp.254-266.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

59. "Freedom of Action and Will" in Jissentetsugaku Kenkyu, 24, 2001, pp.54-78 (in Japanese as translated by Yoshinori Hayashi).

60. "Which Passions Rule?" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65, 2002, pp.157–63.

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

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

62. "Bernard Gert's Complex Hybrid Conception of Rationality" 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, 5, 2002, pp.305-320.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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

Reprinted in Arguing about Metaethics edited by Andrew Fisher and Simon Kirchin (London: Routledge, 2006).

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.

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

66. "Neutral and Relative Value after Moore" in Ethics, Centenary Symposium on G.E.Moore's Principia Ethica, 113, 2003, pp.576-598.

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

Reprinted in Michael Smith Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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 Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,78, 2004, pp.93-109.

71. "The Structure of Orthonomy" in Action and Agency (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 55) edited by John Hyman and Helen Steward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) pp.165-193.

72. "Metaethics" in Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy edited by Frank Jackson and Michael Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) pp.3-30.

73. "Norms and Regulation: Three Issues" in Philosophical Studies, 124,  2005, pp.221-232.

74. "Is That All There Is?" in The Journal of Ethics, 10, 2006, Special Issue on Joel Feinberg pp.75-106.

75. "Moore on the Right, the Good, and Uncertainty" in Metaethics After Moore edited by Terence Horgan and Mark Timmons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp.133-148.

76. "Environmentalism: Spiritual, Ethical, Political" in Environmental Values, 15, 2006, pp.355-63.

77. "External Reasons" in McDowell and His Critics edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006) (co-authored with Philip Pettit) pp.140-168.

78. "Absolutist Moral Theories and Uncertainty" in Journal of Philosophy, 103, 2006, pp.267-283 (co-authored with Frank Jackson).

79. "Precis of Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics" in Philosophical Books, 48, 2007, pp.97-98.

80. "In Defence of Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics: Reply to Enoch, Heironymi, and Tannenbaum" in Philosophical Books, 48, 2007, pp.136-149.

81. "Is there a Nexus between Reasons and Rationality?" in Moral Psychology edited by Sergio Tenenbaum (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007) pp.279-298.

82. "The Truth About Internalism" in Moral Psychology Volume 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) pp.207-215

83. "Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection" in Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals: Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson edited by Ian Ravenscroft (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) pp.237-266.

84. "The Explanatory Role of Being Rational" in Reasons for Action edited by David Sobel and Steven Wall (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp.58-80.

85. "Desires, Values, Reasons, and the Dualism of Practical Reason" in Ratio: Special Issue: Parfit's On What Matters edited by John Cottingham and Jussi Suikkanen, 22, 2009, pp.98-125.

86. "Reasons With Rationalism After All" in Analysis Reviews, 69, 2009, pp.1-10.

87. "Moral Obligation, Accountability, and Second-Personal Reasons" forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (co-authored with Jada Twedt Strabbing)

88. "Two Kinds of Consequentialism" forthcoming in Philosophical Issues 19 (Metaethics).

89. "Schiffer's Unhappy Face Solution to a Puzzle about Moral Judgement" forthcoming in Meanings and Other Things: Essays on Stephen Schiffer edited by Gary Ostertag (Cambridge: MIT Press).

90. "The Motivation Argument for Non-Cognitivism" in Hume, Motivation and Virtue edited by Charles Pigden (Rochester: Rochester University Press, forthcoming)

91. "Beyond the Error Theory" in A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory edited by Richard Joyce and Simon Kirchin (New York: Springer, forthcoming).

92. "The Standard Story of Action: An Exchange" forthcoming in Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action, edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff (Cambridge: Bradford Book, The MIT Press).

(iv) Short encyclopedia and dictionary entries:

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

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

Reprinted in the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 1999). Reprinted in the Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 2005).

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

5. "Links Between Philosophy at Princeton University and Australasian Philosophy" forthcoming in Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand edited by Graham Oppy, Nick Trakakis, Lynda Burns, Steve Gardner, and Fiona Leigh (Monash ePress).

(v) Reviews:

1. Review of Christopher Peacocke's Sense and Content (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy September 1985 pp.372-375.

2. Review of Simon Blackburn's Spreading the Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy December 1985 pp.543-546

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.43-45.

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.26-27.

5. "Smith reviews Mele," in Jamie Dreier and David Estlund, eds, Brown Electronic Article Review Service, 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

"Between Thick and Thin" presented at the annual Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Melbourne, July 2009.

"Between Thick and Thin" presented at Thick Concepts Conference, University of Kent, July 2009.

"Do We Have Reasons To Do What We Should Do Morally Speaking?" presented at Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams, Leeds University, July 2009.

"Comments on Chrisman and Hubbs", presented as a response to Matthew Chrisman and Graham Hubbs' "What is an Action?" at the Scottish Network for Normative Philosophy’s Workshop on Practical Reasoning, University of Edinburgh, June 2009.

"Responses" presented at Students' Conference on Practical Analytical Philosophy: The Philosophy of Michael Smith, University of Tuebingen, May 2009.

"Four Approaches to Reasons for Action and What They Tell Us about Public Reasons" presented at Public Reasons and Deliberation, a workshop held at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, May 2009.

"Beyond Belief and Desire", Keynote Address at the Tenth Annual Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, Princeton University, March 2005.

"Secular vs Religious Accounts of Values and Reasons", presented as the Onsager Lecture at Arizona State University, Tempe, March 2009.

"The Value of Promising", presented at Promises and Agreements, a workshop held at Rice University, October 2008.

"Evolution and the Social Contract: A Response", presented as a response to Brian Skyrms's Tanner Lecture Evolution and the Social Contract at the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 2007.

"Open Mindedness: A Response", presented as a response to Nomy Arpaly's "Open Mindedness" at the Chapel Hill Annual Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 2007

"Subjectivism and Idealization: A Response", presented as a response to David Sobel's "Subjectivism and Idealization" at SPAWN, Syracuse University, July 2007.

"The Limits of Experimental Philosophy", presented at Experimental Philosophy Meets Conceptual Analysis, a conference held at the Australian National University, July 2007.

"Norms, Kinds, and Functions" presented at Norms and Analysis, a conference held at the University of Sydney, June 2007.

"From Rankings to Reasons", The Wittgenstein Lectures, presented at the University of Bayreuth, 21-25 May 2007. (Lecture 1: "So what if 'good' is attributive?"; Lecture 2: "The explanatory role of being rational"; Lecture 3: "From rationalism to the dispositional theory of value"; Lecture 4: "Values and reasons: two kinds of consequentialism"; Lecture 5: "Secular vs religious approaches to values and reasons")

"Expressivism and Minimalism Again" Keynote Address at the Columbia-NYU Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, NYU, March 2007.

"Expressivism and Minimalism Again" presented at Truth and Reality: Conference in Honour of Alan Musgrave held at Otago University, January 2007.

"Value, Value-Making Features, and Reasons" presented at Parfit Meets Critics a conference held at Reading University, 2-3 November 2006.

"Religious vs Secular Accounts of Value" presented at the Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN) held at Syracuse University, July 2006.

"The Explanatory Role of Being Rational" presented at the annual Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Canberra, July 2006.

"Holistic Directions of Fit, Besires, and Rationalism" made available as part of the first On-line Philosophy Conference (OPC). Posted on 30 April 2006 at: <http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/online_philosophy_confere/>

"Two Kinds of Consequentialism" delivered at the Kline Workshop on Practical Reason held at the University of Missouri at Columbia, April 2006.

"The Explanatory Role of Being Rational" delivered at Conference on Practical Reason held at Bowling Green State University, April 2006.

"Religious vs Secular Accounts of the Meaning of Life" presented as the Donald R. Brown Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont, March 2006.

"The Evaluative and the Deontic" presented at the annual Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Sydney, July 2005.

"'Good' and 'Right'" delivered at Good and Right, Free and Reasonable: Discussions with Michael Smith, University of Konstanz, June 2005.

"What's Wrong With Conceptual Analysis?" delivered at The Challenge of Philosophical Naturalism, Institute for Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University, June 2005.

"Is That All There Is?" delivered at Practical Rationality, University of Maryland at College Park, April 2005.

"Moore on the Right, the Good, and Uncertainty," delivered at The Good and the Right: A Workshop, University of Toronto, April 2005.

"External Reasons," Keynote Address at the Sixth Annual Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, Princeton University, February 2005.

"The Evaluative and the Deontic," Keynote Address at the First Annual Metaethics Workshop, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 2004.

"Moore on the Right, the Good, and Uncertainty," delivered at Practical Reason and Moral Motivation, Helsinki Research Project in Theoretical Ethics, Finnish Institute in Rome, September 2004.

"Instrumental Desires, Instrumental Rationality," delivered as part of a symposium at the Joint Session of the Mind Association and 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 on Action and Agency, 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.

"Immodest Consequentialism" presented as the Hollan Lecture at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 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 annual Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 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.

"Response to Gibbard" presented at Natural Metaphysics, an international conference funded by the ARC and held in Sydney, August 1997.

"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 annual Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 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, and The Daniel Taylor Lecture at Otago University, April 1998.

"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.

'The Possibility of Philosophy of Action" presented at the annual Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, University of Queensland, 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.

"Responsibility in Belief and Desire" (Philip Pettit co-author) presented at the annual Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, University of New England, July 1995.

"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 Association 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)

Lund University (September 2002)

University of Copenhagen (September 2002)

Sydney University (October 2002)

University of Melbourne (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)

Australian National University (March 2004)

UWA (March 2004)

University of Melbourne (April 2004)

Boston University (April 2004)

University of Adelaide (August 2004)

Finnish Institute in Rome (September 2004)

University of Wisconsin, Madison (October 2004)

Princeton University (February 2005)

University of Toronto (April 2005)

University of Maryland, College Park (April 2005)

Rutgers University, Camden (June 2005)

University of Konstanz (June 2005)

Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney (July 2005)

Australian National University (July 2005)

Wesley College, Melbourne (July 2005)

Brown University (October 2005)

University of Pittsburgh (November 2005)

Temple University (December 2005)

Harvard University (February 2006)

University of Vermont (March 2006)

Bowling Green State University (April 2006)

University of Missouri, Columbia (April 2006)

Australasian Association of Philosophy, Canberra (July 2006)

Syracuse University (July 2006)

Dartmouth College (August 2006)

Wake Forest University (September 2006)

Columbia University Teachers' College (October 2006)

Brandeis University (October 2006)

Tufts University (October 2006)

CUNY Graduate Center (October 2006)

Reading University (November 2006)

Australian National University (January 2007)

Otago University (January 2007)

Bowdoin College (March 2007)

NYU (March 2007)

Harvard University (March 2007)

University of Maryland, College Park (May 2007)

University of Bayreuth (May 2007)

University of Bayreuth (May 2007)

University of Bayreuth (May 2007)

University of Bayreuth (May 2007)

University of Bayreuth (May 2007)

University of Sydney (June 2007)

Australian National University (July 2007)

Syracuse University (July 2007)

University of Southern California (September 2007)

University of Massachussetts, Amherst (September 2007)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (October 2007)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (November 2007)

Australian National University (February 2008)

Australian National University (April 2008)

University of Melbourne (May 2008)

Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia (June 2008)

National University of Singapore (June 2008)

Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne (July 2008)

Australian National University (August 2008)

Monash University (August 2008)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (September 2008)

Princeton University (September 2008)

Rice University (October 2008)

Amherst College (October 2008)

Smith College (October 2008)

Princeton University (November 2008)

University of Pennsylvania (November 2008)

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia (December 2008)

Rutgers University (March 2009)

Arizona State University (March 2009)

Arizona State University (March 2009)

Arizona State University (March 2009)

Princeton University (March 2009)

Princeton University (May 2009)

University of Tuebingen (May 2009)

University of Tuebingen (May 2009)

University of Edinburgh (June 2009)

Leeds University (July 2009)

University of Kent (July 2009)

Teaching since 1995

2008-2009: PHI524 Systematic Ethics: Themes from Setiya, Bratman, and Dancy (Fall); PHI202 Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Spring).

2007-2008: PHI524 Systematic Ethics: Themes from Railton, Raz, and Scanlon (Fall); PHI202 Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Fall); on leave (Spring)

2006-2007: PHI524 Systematic Ethics: Themes from Velleman, Herman, and Langton (Fall); PHI599: Dissertation Seminar (Fall); PHI202 Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Spring).

2005-2006: PHI202 Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Fall); PHI324 Systematic Ethics (Spring); PHI524 Systematic Ethics: Themes from Darwall, Wallace, and Watson (Spring).

2004-2005: PHI319 Normative Ethics (Fall); PHI202 Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Spring); PHI524 Systematic Ethics: Themes from Copp, Sayre-McCord and Wolf (Spring).

1995-2004: Lectures in moral philosophy at The Faculties, Australian National University (1995, 1997, 2004); 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). Supervision of fourth year honours students for the Philosophy Department, The Faculties, ANU (1995, 1998, 2003, 2004). Supervision of PhD students in the Philosophy Program, RSSS, and the Philosophy Department, The Faculties, ANU (1995-2004).

Administration since 1995

Administration at Princeton: Acting Chair of the Philosophy Department (2008-9); Philosophy Department Undergraduate Committee (2008-9); Philosophy Department Graduate Committee (2004-6, 2008-9); Philosophy Department Course Allocation Committee (2008-9); Philosophy Department Computer Committee (2005-7, 2008-9); Philosophy Department Seminar committee (2006-7); Philosophy Department Appointments Committee (2004-6; 2008-9); Philosophy Department/University Center for Human Values Appointments Committee (2005-7); Advisor to the University Center for Human Values Film Forum (2005-present) ); Executive Committee of the University Center for Human Values (2006-present); Committee on the Future of African-American Studies at Princeton (2005-6);.

Administration at ANU: Chairperson of ANU Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee (1995-2003); RSSS Sexual Harassment Contact Person (1995-1997); Graduate Program in Philosophy, RSSS Advisor, (1995-1997); Member of RSSS Faculty Board 1998-present; Graduate Program in Philosophy, Overall Convenor, (1997); Head of the Division of Philosophy and Law (1998); Head of the Philosophy Program (1998-2004); Associate Director of RSSS (2000); Member of RSSS Reappointments Committee (1998); Member of RSSS Graduate Scholarships Committee (1998); Participant in RSSS Strategic Planning Workshops (1998); Member of RSSS Strategic Planning Committee (2000-2002); RSSS representative on ANU's Humanities Library Advisory Committee (1998-2000); RSSS representative on BIAS (2000-2004); Member of Project Steering Group for Accommodation for RSSS and RSPAS (2001-2002); Chair of the Review of Room Usage in RSSS Committee (2004).

Professional Memberships and Service

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

Member of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (1989-present)

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

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

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

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Political Philosophy (1993-5), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (1993-2001), Ethics (1996-present), The Philosophers' Imprint (2000-present), The Journal of Ethics (2005-present).

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

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

Consulting Editor for Theoria (2008-present)

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).