PhD, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1999;
MA, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1993;
AB, Philosophy, Harvard University, 1990

My main area of interest – and true passion – is moral philosophy, and I approach projects in this area in a manner shaped in significant part by my training in the Anglo-American analytic philosophical tradition. My other research and teaching interests include Wittgenstein and other figures in early analytic philosophy, philosophy & literature, and feminism & philosophy. I also have serious interests in a number of figures in the history of philosophy, above all, Hume and Kant.

My courses at Lang College cover the full range of my research interests. I have offered courses on ethics, Wittgenstein, philosophy & literature, Hume, Kant, Hegel and – to mention one of my newer interests – philosophy & animals. In coming years, I plan to offer courses on these topics and also on feminism & philosophy.

Tues 12-1, Thurs 4:30-5:30 and by Appointment

I am co-editor of The New Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2000) and Reading Cavell (Routledge, 2005) and editor of Wittgenstein and the Moral Life (MIT Press, 2006). I am author of Beyond Moral Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006), and I am currently working on a new book entitled Humans, Animals, Right and Wrong.

• Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values (2003-2004)
• New School’s University Distinguished Teaching Award (2005)