I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. I earned degrees in philosophy from The University of Georgia (BA), Georgia State University (MA), and Florida State University (PhD). Since 2006, I have been an assistant professor of philosopy and a member of the law and policy faculty at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I will be spending the upcoming year (2009-2010) at the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind (U.C. Santa Barbara) as a MacArthur fellow in Law and Neuroscience.

My main areas of research include moral psychology, the philosophy of action, free will, punishment theory, and neurolaw. I am particularly interested in research at the cross roads of philosophy and the sciences of the mind. My articles have appeared in journals such as Analysis, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Mind & Language, Neuroethics, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. I am also a contributing author to blogs such as The Situationist, The Leiter Reports, The Garden of Forking Paths, and Experimental Philosophy. When not thinking about or teaching philosophy, I spend lots of time hanging out with my pack of dogs, climbing boulders and walls, and listening to indie rock.