Title
Distinguished Professor; William and Trudy Ausfahl Chair

Department
Dept of Philosophy


Faculty URL
https://www.rjaywallace.net

Email
rjw@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 394-3309

Fax
510-642-4164


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Research Expertise and Interest
ethics, moral philosophy, philosophy

Research Description
R. Jay Wallace works in moral philosophy. His interests extend to all parts of the subject (including its history), and to such allied areas as political philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of action. His research has focused on responsibility, moral psychology, normative ethics,?and the theory of practical reason. Recently he has written on promising, normativity, constructivism, resentment, hypocrisy, love, regret, affirmation, obligation, and anger (among other topics). He was an undergraduate at Williams College, where he received the B.A. degree in 1979. He did his graduate work at the University of Oxford (B.Phil. 1983) and at Princeton University (Ph.D. 1988). His publications include Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (Harvard),?Normativity and the Will (Oxford), The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret (Oxford), and The Moral Nexus (Princeton).?