Education
BA, Pomona College
PhD, University of Notre Dame

Areas of Research
Contemporary moral philosophy: epistemological issues concerning realism, relativism and skepticism; moral dilemmas and "dirty hands"; normative theories, especially in the Kantian tradition. Kant’s moral philosophy. Buddhist philosophy: Early Buddhism; Buddhism and Hellenistic philosophy, especially Stoicism; Buddhist moral and political philosophy; virtue ethics.

Selected Publications

Philosophy of the Buddha (Routledge, 2003)

Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing (Oxford University Press, 1994)

Editor, Moral Disagreements (Routledge, 2000)

Editor, Moral Dilemmas (Oxford University Press, 1989)

"Virtue and Nature," Social Philosophy and Policy, forthcoming.

"Review of David B. Wong's Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism," in Notre Dame Philosophical Review, forthcoming.

"Standing Up to Terrorists: Buddhism, Human Rights, and Self-Respect," in Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror, ed. Douglas Allen, 101–21 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006).

"A Priori Refutations of Disagreement Arguments against Moral Objectivity: Why Experience Matters," Journal of Value Inquiry 38 (2004): 141-57.

"Practical Identities and Autonomy: Korsgaard’s Reformation of Kant’s Moral Philosophy," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2002), 546-70.