Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
I am a Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. I work mainly on conceptual and empirical approaches to the self-regulation of behavior. I am the author of 6 books and over one hundred papers on free will, moral philosophy and philosophy of psychology and mind.
I am also Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, at theUniversity of Oxford.
I have a special interest in the science of moral decision-making and in topics in free will and moral responsibility. I am author of many papers on conceptual issues in free will and moral responsibility, as well as of papers on the psychological mechanisms involved in self-control and in addiction.
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