I joined Rice's Philosophy Department in the summer of 2015, after having worked at the University of Manitoba and at Ohio State University.

I wrote a dissertation on the nature of mental representation at Stanford University under Fred Dretske, way back in 1998. Then came a book on the nature of desiring, wishing, and wanting, one that did its best to integrate the philosophy and the science. That was Three Faces of Desire (2004: Oxford University Press). A little while later, I wrote another book uniting the cognitive science of desire with moral psychology, co-authoring with my friend Nomy Arpaly. That was In Praise of Desire (2014: Oxford University Press). These days I'm deep in the middle of a new book on the neuroscience of action and on the need for philosophers to interpret that science in their own terms. Between books I seem to have found the time to write a little about consciousness, concepts, pleasure, fictional characters, the metaphysics of ideas, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, addiction, and the Humean theory of practical reason. I also have a fun project on certain recursively-characterized aspects of moral thinking in young children, in collaboration with Duke developmental psychologist Tamar Kushner.