Thomas Allen Nadelhoffer

Duke University                                                  Dickinson College

Kenan Institute for Ethics                                    Department of Philosophy
Box 90432                                                         Carlisle, PA 17013
Durham, NC 27708                                            (717) 701-1974
http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/                                tnadelhoffer@gmail.com  

Duke University                     Visiting Scholar in the Kenan Institute for Ethics (Spring 2010 to present)

Dickinson College                  Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Contributing Faculty
(tenure track)                        to the Law and Policy Program (2006 to present)

Areas of Specialization          Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Law, and Action Theory

Areas of CompetenceNeuroethics and Animal Rights

Dissertation                            Intentions and Intentional Actions in Ordinary Language and the Criminal Law (Advisor: Alfred Mele)         

Ph.D. in Philosophy       Florida State University (2002-2005)         
M.A. in Philosophy                 Georgia State University (1996-1999)
B.A. in Philosophy                  University of Georgia (1992-1996)  

• Neuroscience Boot Camp, University of Pennsylvania (Summer 2010)
• Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, U.C. Santa Barbara (Summer 2009)
• fMRI Acquisition and Analysis Course, University of New Mexico (Summer 2009)

• MacArthur Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Law and Neuroscience, Duke University (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) (2010-2011)
• MacArthur Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Law and Neuroscience, University of California Santa Barbara (with Michael Gazzaniga) (2009 to 2010)
• Kingsbury Fellowship, Florida State University (2004 to 2005)
• Deborah K. Kearney Book Award in Jurisprudence, Florida State University College of Law (Spring 2003)

• The MacArthur Foundation: “The Responsibility, Agency, and Determinism (RAD) Scale,” $7,000 (Spring 2010)
• The MacArthur Foundation: “Neuroprediction and Blame,” $9,000 (Fall 2009)
• The Andrew Mellon Foundation: Faculty Development Grant, $2,000 (Fall 2009)

• The Future of Punishment. Forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
• Moral Psychology: Classical and Contemporary Readings, with Eddy Nahmias and Shaun Nichols.  Forthcoming with Blackwell Publishing.

(a) primary author, (=) authorship equal, (*) invited

1. “Criminal Law, Philosophy, and Psychology: Working at the Cross-roads.”  Forthcoming in L. Green and B. Leiter (eds.), The Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law (Oxford University Press). (*)
2. “The Threat of Shrinking Agency and Free Will Disillusionism.”  Forthcoming in L. Nadel and W. Sinnott-Armstrong (eds.), Benjamin Libet and Agency (Oxford University Press). (*)
3. “Experimental Ethics,” with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Forthcoming in C. Miller (ed.) Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum). (=) (*)
4.  “Experimental Philosophy of Action.” Forthcoming in J. Aguilar, A. Buckareff, and K. Frankish (eds.), New Waves in the Philosophy of Action (Palgrave-MacMillan). (*)
5. “The Causal Theory of Action and the Still Puzzling Knobe Effect.”  Forthcoming in. Aguilar, A. Buckareff, and K. Frankish (eds.), The Causal Theory of Action (MIT University Press). (*)
6. “Neuroscience-Based Lie Detection and Ordinary Language: A Commentary on Michael Pardo and Dennis Patterson.”  Forthcoming in Neuroethics. (*)
7. “Positive Illusions, Perceived Control, and the Free Will Debate,” with Tatyana Matveeva (a Dickinson College undergraduate). Mind & Language, 24 (2009): 495-522. (a)
8. “Natural Compatibilism vs. Natural Incompatibilism: Back to the Drawing Board,” with Adam Feltz and Edward Cokely. Mind & Language, 24 (2009): 1-23. (=)
9. “Temperament and Intuition: A Commentary on Feltz and Cokely” with Trevor Kvaran and Eddy Nahmias. Consciousness and Cognition 18 (2009): 351-355. (a) (*)
10. “The Actor-Observer Bias and Moral Intuitions:  Adding Fuel to Sinnott-Armstrong’s Fire,” with Adam Feltz. Neuroethics 1:2 (2008): 133-144. (a) (*)
11. “Folk Intuitions, Slippery Slopes, and Necessary Fictions: An Essay on Smilansky’s Free Will Illusionism,” with Adam Feltz. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13:1 (2007): 202-213. (a) (*)
12. “The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy,” with Eddy Nahmias.  Philosophical Explorations 10:2 (2007): 123-149. (=)
13. “Fringe Benefits, Side Effects, and Intentional Actions: A Reply to Feltz.”  The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 27:1 (2007): 801-809. (*)
14. “On Trying to Save the Simple View.” Mind & Language 21:5 (2006): 565-586.
15. “Is Incompatibilism Intuitive?” with Eddy Nahmias, Steven Morris, and Jason Turner.  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73:1 (2006): 28-53. Reprinted in J. Knobe and S. Nichols (eds.), Experimental Philosophy (Oxford University Press).
16. “Bad Acts, Blameworthy Agents, and Intentional Actions: Some Problems for Jury Impartiality.”  Philosophical Explorations 9:2 (2006): 203-220.  Reprinted in J. Knobe and S. Nichols (eds.), Experimental Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press).
17. “Foresight, Moral Considerations, and Intentional Actions.” The Journal of Cognition and Culture 6:1 (2006): 133-158. (*)
18. “Surveying Free Will: Folk Intuitions about Free Will and Moral Responsibility,”with Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, and Jason Turner. Philosophical Psychology 18:5 (2005): 561-584. (=)
19. “Skill, Luck, and Intentional Action.” Philosophical Psychology 18:3 (2005): 343-354.
20. “The Butler Problem Revisited.” Analysis 64:3 (2004): 277-284.
21. “The Phenomenology of Free Will,” with Eddy Nahmias, Stephen Morris, & Jason Turner. The Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (2004): 162-179.
22. “Praise, Side Effects, and Intentional Action.” The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 24 (2004): 196-213.
23. “Blame, Badness, and Intentional Action: A Reply to Knobe and Mendlow.” The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 24 (2004): 259-269. (*)

1. “Neuroscience, Crime, and the Brain.” Forthcoming in The International Criminology Encyclopedia. (*)
2. “Review of Bennett and Hacker’s Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.” Forthcoming in Neuroethics. (*)
3. “Polling as a Valuable Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Philosophy,” with Eddy Nahmias.  Teaching Philosophy 30:1 (2008): 39-58. (a)
4. Dual Review of Shaun Nichols’ Sentimental Rules and Robert Solomon’s In Defense of Sentimentality.  Philosophical Psychology 20:1 (2007): 6-12.

1. The Roots of Retributivism: The Past, Present, and Future of Punishment. Book-length manuscript in preparation.
2. “Predicting Violence in the Neuroscientific Age,” with Andrew Mansfield. (a)
3. “Free Will, Legal Liability, and Deep Desert.”  
4. “The Problem of Punishing the Innocent Revisited.”

1. “Commentary on Justin Fischer’s ‘Pragmatic X-Phi,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology: Atlanta, GA, April 2010.
2. “Intuitions and Philosophy,” Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association: San Francisco CA, upcoming April 2010.
3. “Commentary on Knobe,” Werkmeister Conference on Experimental Philosophy, Florida State University:  Tallahassee FL, January 2010.
4. “Commentary on Matt King’s ‘The ‘I’ in ‘Me’: Consciousness and Compatibilism’,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology: Savannah, GA, April 2008.
5. “Positive Illusions, Perceived Control, and the Free Will Debate,” Georgia State University: Atlanta, GA, January 2009.
6. “The Psychology of Philosophy,” International Workshop on Experimental Philosophy, Cologne University: Cologne, Germany, September 2008.
7. “Commentary on Felipe De Brigard and Eric Mandelbaum’s ‘Neuroscience and Responsibility’,” Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association: Chicago IL, April 2008.
8. “Disillusionment and Revolution: Free Will and Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience,” Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, The University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ April 2008.
9. “Positive Illusions, Perceived Control, and the Free Will Debate,” Florida State University: Tallahassee, FL, March 2008.
10. “Commentary on Bertram Malle,” Werkmeister Conference on Free Will and Science, Florida State University:  Tallahassee FL, January 2008.
11. “Commentary on Mark Phelan and Hagop Sarkissian’s ‘The Folk Strike Back; Or, Why You Didn’t Do It Intentionally, Though It Was Bad and You Knew It’,” Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association: Chicago IL, April 2007.
12. “Experimental Philosophy: A House Divided?” Franklin and Marshall College: Lancaster PA, March 2007.
13. “The Past and Future of Experimental Philosophy.” Bowling Green State University: Bowling Green OH, February 2007.
14. “Commentary on Stacey Swain, Joshua Alexander, and Jonathan Weinberg’s ‘The Instability of Philosophical Intuitions: Running Hot and Cold on True-temp’,” Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology: Charleston SC, April 2006.
15. “Conceptual Analysis and Folk Intuitions," Cal State University Long Beach: Long Beach CA, February 2006.
16. “Intentions and Intentional Actions in Ordinary Language and the Law,” Florida State University College of Law Faculty Workshop: Tallahassee FL, May 2005.
17. “Preemption, Self-Defense, and Just War Theory,” Florida State University College of Law: Tallahassee FL, January 2004.
    

Dickinson College                 Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Contributing Faculty to Law and Policy Program (tenure track 2006-present)

Florida State University        Visiting Assistant Professor (full time 2005-2006) & Instructor (part time 2003-2005)

Georgia State University       Visiting Instructor (full time 2000-2002)

Dickinson College:

• Animal Welfare and Morality (1 section)
• Contemporary Philosophy Workshop (2 sections)
• Crime and Punishment (1 section)
• Critical Reasoning (1 section)
• Ethics (5 sections)
• Foundations of Law and Public Policy (1 section)
• Free Will (1 section)
• Seminar: Free Will and Science (1 section)
• Seminar: Intuitions in Philosophy (1 section)
• Seminar: Morality and the Mind (1 section)
• Seminar: The Philosophy of Human Rights (1 section)

Florida State University:

• Ethical Issues (2 sections)         
• Introduction to Philosophy (3 sections)
• The Philosophy of Law (1 section)
• The Philosophy of Mind  (1 section)
• Reasoning and Critical Thinking (1 section)
• Seminar: Free Will, Neuroscience, and the Law (1 section)

Georgia State University:

Critical Thinking (16 sections)

• Great Questions of Philosophy (15 sections)

• Dickinson College, Honors Thesis Advisor: Amanda Waugh (2008-2009)
• Dickinson College, Honors Thesis Advisor: Cara Sgobba (2007-2008)
• Dickinson College, Honors Thesis Advisor: Tatyana Matveeva (2007-2008)

The Professional Community:

• Referee for American Philosophical Quarterly, Consciousness and Cognition, Erkenntnis, The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Mind & Language, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy Compass, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Social Theory and Practice.
• Creator, coordinator, and contributing author of the Flickers of Freedom blog (2010 to present)
• Creator, coordinator, and contributing author of The Law and Neuroscience Blog (2009 to present)
• Co-Founder, President, and Member of the Executive Committee, The Experimental Philosophy Society (XPS) (2009 to present)
• Creator and Program Chair of the 1st and 2nd On-line Philosophy Conference (May 2007 & May 2008) 
• Creator, coordinator, and contributing author of the Experimental Philosophy blog (2004 to present)

Dickinson College:

• Judge for Public Speaking Competition (Spring 2009)
• Planning and Budget Committee (Fall 2008 to Spring 2009)
• Philosophy Club Advisor (Fall 2008 to Spring 2009)
• College-wide Summer Advising (Summer 2008)
• Judge for Public Speaking Competition (Spring 2008)
• Referee for the 100 Projects for Peace Program (Fall 2007)
• Member of Advisory Committee for Disability Services (2007-2009)
• Member of the Working Group on Sustainability (2007-2008)
• Member of a First Year Seminar Learning Community on Human Rights (Fall 2007)
• College-wide Summer Advising (Summer 2007)
• Referee for the 100 Projects for Peace Program (Fall 2006)

• Brian Leiter, John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values, The University of Chicago Law School: bleiter@uchicago.edu  
• Alfred Mele, William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University: almele@mailer.fsu.edu
• Eddy Nahmias, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University: enahmias@gsu.edu
• Shaun Nichols, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona:  sbn@email.arizona.edu
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College: Walter.P.Sinnott-Armstrong@dartmouth.edu