·       Stanford University
                Ph.D. 2000 (philosophy).  Dissertation: The Disintegration of Belief.  Advisor: Michael Bratman.

·       Yale Law School, Yale University
               J.D. 1984 (law).  Interdisciplinary program in law and philosophy. 
                                           Thesis: "Meaning, Understanding, and Legal Texts."

·       Harvard College, Harvard University
               A.B. 1979 (applied mathematics) magna cum laude.

·         Fulbright Scholarship (to University of Haifa, Israel, 2007-08).  

·         USNA Nominee for NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend (2006).  

·         USNA Civilian Faculty Teaching Excellence Award nominee (2004).  

·         Naval Academy Research Council grant recipient (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005).

·         NEH Seminar participant: “Folk Psychology vs. Mental Simulation: How Minds Understand Minds,” U. Missouri St. Louis, director Robert M. Gordon (1999).

·         Olga Merck Wheeler Fellow (Stanford, 1997-98).

·         Associate Research Scholar and Post-Doctoral Fellow in Law (Yale, 1991-92).

·         Law clerk, Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (1984-85).

·         Scholar in the Law (in Law and Hermeneutics) (Yale, 1983-84).

·         Frank Knox Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge University (1979-80).

·         Phi Beta Kappa, junior twelve (Harvard, 1978).

• “Situated Cognition: The Perspect Model.” In Don Ross, David Spurrett, Harold Kincaid, & Lynn Stephens, eds.,   Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition in Social Context (MIT Press, 2007).

• “Making Philosophy of Science Accessible--and Useful--to Non-Majors: Five Innovations Worth Trying.”  APA [American Philosophical Association] Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 6(1): 2-6 (2006). Modified version in AAPT [American Association of Philosophy Teachers] News 29(1): 4-6 (2006).

• “Selflessness and Cognition.”  Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8(4): 411-35 (2005).

• “Humor, Context, and Divided Cognition.”  Social Theory and Practice 31(3): 309-36 (2005).

• “Altering Artworks:  Creators’ Moral Rights vs. the Public Good.”  Philosophy in the Contemporary World 12(2): 53-61 (2005). 

• “Ethical Pluralism: An Alternative to Objectivism and Relativism.”  Teaching Ethics 5(1): 23-29 (2004)(reprinted as "An Alternative to Moral Relativism" in Christina Hoff Sommers & Fred Sommers, Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life, 7th ed. (Wadsworth 2007))..

• “Rhetoric and Anti-Semitism.”  Academic Questions 17(2): 22-32 (2004). 

• “Racism and Impure Hearts.”  In Michael Levine & Tamas Pataki, eds., Racism in Mind:  Philosophical Explanations of Racism and Its Implications (Cornell UP, 2004), pp.158-78.  

• "Keeping Self-Deception in Perspective."  In Jean-Pierre Dupuy, ed., Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1998), pp.87-111.

• "'Don't Think, But Look!':  Wittgenstein (& James) on Method."  In Paul Weingartner, Gerhard Schurz, & Georg Dorn, eds., The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 1 (Kirchberg am Wechsel: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1997), pp.53-59. 

• "The Problem with Highlighters."  Academic Questions 3(3): 65-70 (1990) (reprinted in part as "The Highlighter Crisis," Harper's Magazine, Apr 1991, at 36-39). 

• “Belief (in Emotion).” In Sander, D., and Scherer, K.R., eds., The Oxford Companion to Affective Sciences (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

• “Evaluating Emotions: What Are the Prospects for a Stoic Revivial?” [Review of Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).] Journal of Military Ethics 5(3): 233-40 (2006).

• “Ethical Pluralism: An Alternative to Objectivism and Relativism,” in George Lucas & William Rubel, eds., Ethics & the Military Profession: The Moral Foundations of Leadership (Longman, 2004).

• Ethics for Military Leaders, 5th ed.  Custom textbook, co-edited with George Lucas, Shannon E. French, Chris Eberle, David Garren, Roger Wertheimer, & Paul Roush (Boston: Pearson Pub., 2001).

• "Intentionalism, Art, and the Suppression of Innovation:  Film Colorization and the Philosophy of Moral Rights," 82 Northwestern Univ. Law Review 1011-1112 (1988). 

• Letters in London Review of Books, The New Republic, The New York Times.

• “Children, Gratitude & Respect: Filial Piety as a Vice” (American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Dec 2007).

• “Children, Gratitude & Respect: Filial Piety as a Vice” (Society for Applied Philosophy, Jun-Jul 2007).

• “Courage Without Fear” (American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Dec 2005).

• “Distributed Cognition: The Perspect Model” (Mind AND World working group, Mar 2005).

• “Courage as Fearlessness” (JSCOPE, Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics, Jan 2005).

• “Selflessness and Cognition” (British Society for Ethical Theory, July 2004).

• “Microcognitions as Sources of Emotion” (Joint Session of the Mind Association & the Aristotelian Society, July 2004). 

• “The Morality of Altering Others’ Creations:  Questioning the ‘Moral Rights’ of Artists (Association for Practical & Professional Ethics, Feb-Mar 2003).

• “Belief, Acceptance, and the Paradox of Fiction” (American Society of Aesthetics, Eastern Division, Apr 2003).

• "Do We Believe Only What We Take to Be True?"  (Society for Philosophy & Psychology, Jun 1999)

• “Do the Brave Master Their Fears—or Avoid Them?” (University of Haifa Philosophy Conference, June 2008).

• “Beyond Belief: Making Sense of Our Reactions to Fictions” (University of Haifa, Dept of Philosophy Colloquium, Nov 2007).

• “Filial Gratitude as a Vice” (USNA, LEL Research Workshop, Nov 2005).

• “Courage as Fearlessness” (USNA, LEL Research Workshop, Dec 2004).

• “How Do Divided Minds—Like Ours—Believe?” (SUNY Albany, Dept of Philosophy colloquium, Nov 2004).

• “Beyond Belief: Making Sense of Our Reactions to Fictions” (Lafayette College, Dept of Philosophy, Apr 2004).

• “Microcognitions as Sources of Emotion” (USNA, LEL Research Workshop, Dec 2003).

• “Ethics Teaching at USNA” (Naval Academy Preparatory School Faculty Development Program, Jul 2001).

• “Thinking with Images” (Scientific & Philosophical Studies of Mind program, Franklin & Marshall College, Dec 1999).

• travel:     Central Asia, China, Europe, Australia, Mideast, Morocco, USA.

• music:     Washington Men’s Camerata. Stanford Early Music Singers: Stanford Chamber Chorale. Yale
                   Collegium Musicum; Yale Concert Choir. Harvard Glee Club.

• sports:     Cambridge University Varsity Basketball.  Harvard Lightweight Crew; JV Squash.  Golf.