Pamela Hieronymi
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Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University |
Main interests | Moral psychology, Moral responsibility, agency |
Pamela Hieronymi is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] Her primary research area is moral psychology, with a special emphasis on issues of responsibility and agency.[2] Her work on these topics, as well as her work on reasons, trust, forgiveness, and the voluntariness of belief, has been influential and widely cited.[3][4][5] In 2010 she won the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies.[6] She spent the 2011–2012 academic year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.[7]
Hieronymi earned her A.B. from Princeton University in 1992[8] and earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000.[9] She has worked at UCLA since July 2000, where she was awarded tenure in 2007.[8] She has presented her research widely, both nationally and internationally.[8] In addition, she has appeared on Philosophy Talk public radio and her thoughts on technology and teaching were published by the Chronicle of Higher Education.[10]
Awards and fellowships
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, ACLS, September 2011–June 2012
- Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, September 2011–June 2012
- Assistant Professor Career Development Grant, UCLA, March–June 2006
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, American Council of Learned Societies, July 2003–May 2004
- Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, May–June 2003
- Carrier Prize, Harvard University Department of Philosophy, July 2001
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, June 1999–June 2000
Selected works
- “Don’t Confuse Technology with Teaching,” Chronicle of Higher Education 63, no. 44 (August 13, 2012): A19
- “Reasons for Action,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 111 (2011): 407–27.
- “Believing at Will,” Belief and Agency, David Hunter, ed., The Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 35 (2009): 149–187.
- “Of Metaphysics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism,” Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon, R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 101–128.
- “Two Kinds of Agency,” Mental Actions, Lucy O’Brien and Matthew Soteriou, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2009): 138–62.
- “The Reasons of Trust,” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86, no. 2 (June 2008): 213–36.
- “Controlling Attitudes,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87, no. 1 (March 2006): 45–74.
- “The Wrong Kind of Reason,” The Journal of Philosophy 102, no. 9 (September 2005): 437–57.
- “The Force and Fairness of Blame,” Philosophical Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2004): 115–48.
- “Articulating an Uncompromising Forgiveness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62, no. 3 (May 2001): 529–55.
References
- ↑ "UCLA Faculty Page".
- ↑ Hieronymi, Pamela. "Personal Homepage".
- ↑ Nickel, Philip (September 2010). "Voluntary Belief on a Reasonable Basis". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. LXXXI (2): 313. doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00380.x. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ↑ McCleod, Carolyn. "Trust". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ↑ Chignell, Andrew. "The Ethics of Belief". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ↑ "ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows". Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ↑ "Announcing the 2011-12 CASBS Mellon Fellows". CASBS. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ↑ "Harvard University Placement". Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ↑ Hieronymi, Pamela (13 August 2012). "Don't Confuse Technology With College Teaching". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 26 July 2013.