I am a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah.  After earning my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1993, I taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, before joining the faculty of the University of Utah Department of Philosophy in 2001. My research focuses on foundational questions in the sciences, especially the physical, social and decisional sciences, as well as on the relations amongst the sciences. I’ve authored numerous articles on causation, explanation and how relations between micro and macro are handled by a range of scientific theories; as well as articles in political philosophy, action theory, metaphysics, epistemology, logical paradox and feminism.  I’m a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, the Tanner Humanities Center, and the University of Sydney Center for Foundations of Science.  In 2010 I’ll be a Professorial Fellow at the London Institute of Philosophy. At the present time I’m working on two book projects: "The Natural History of the Will" and one for a wider audience “Philosophy is of Familiar Things: Philosophical Thought in Lay Contexts.”

The “About Me” tab above will take you to a listing of some published research, with PDFs of such as I am at liberty to make freely accessible.     And the “Blank” tab takes you to where you can download copyrighted material for your own scholarly or educational purposes: by clicking on “Blank” you are promising that you will not publicly distribute items you download from this site. Here’s a more traditional CV.