R. Jay Wallace is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. His area of specialization is moral philosophy. He is most noted for his work on practical reason, moral psychology, and meta-ethics.

Biography

Wallace received his B.A. degree in 1979 from Williams College. He earned the degree of B.Phil. form the University of Oxford in 1983. In 1988, he got his Ph.D. from Princeton University.

He has taught at several universities, including: Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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, the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has held visiting positions at the Universität Bielefeld, in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand). He was the department chair at UC Berkeley from 2005 to 2010. (Source: Wallace's home page at UC Berkeley.)

Books

• Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994; paperback edition 1998).

• Normativity and the Will. Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006).

Edited books

• Ethical Issues in Social Science Research, co-edited with Tom Beauchamp, Ruth Faden, and Leroy Walters (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).
• Reason, Emotion and Will (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1999).
• The Practice of Value, by Joseph Raz
  Joseph Raz
  Joseph Raz is a legal, moral and political philosopher. He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism. He has spent most of his career as professor of philosophy of law and a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and simultaneously as professor of law at Columbia University Law...
  
  , with commentaries by Christine Korsgaard
  Christine Korsgaard
  Christine Marion Korsgaard is an American philosopher and academic whose main scholarly interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; the theory of personal...
  
  , Robert Pippin, and Bernard Williams
  Bernard Williams
  Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness...
  
   (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003).
• Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, co-edited with Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004).

Articles

• "Privacy and the Use of Data in Epidemiology," in Wallace et al., eds. Ethical Issues in Social Science Research (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982). pp. 274–291.
• "How to Argue about Practical Reason," Mind 99 (July 1990), pp. 355–385.
• "Virtue, Reason, and Principle," The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21 (December 1991), pp. 469–495.
• "Reason and Responsibility," in Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut, eds., Ethics and Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp. 321–344.
• "Three Conceptions of Rational Agency," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2 (1999), pp. 217–242.
• "Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections," Law and Philosophy 18 (1999), pp. 621–654.
• "Moral Responsibility and the Practical Point of View," in Ton van den Beld, ed., Moral Responsibility and Ontology (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 25–47.
• "Normativity, Commitment, and Instrumental Reason," Philosophers' Imprint 1, no. 3 (December 2001), URL = http://www.philosophersimprint.org/001003
• "Promises and Practices Revisited," co-authored with Niko Kolodny, Philosophy and Public Affairs 31 (Spring 2003), pp. 119–154.
• "Practical Reason," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/practical-reason/
• "Explanation, Deliberation, and Reasons," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (2003), pp. 429–435.
• "The Rightness of Acts and the Goodness of Lives," in R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith, eds., Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 385–411.
• "Normativity and the Will," in John Hyman and Helen Steward, eds., Agency and Action (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 195–216.
• "Moral Motivation", in James Dreier, ed., Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
• "Constructing Normativity", Philosophical Topics 32 (Spring and Fall 2004), pp. 451–476.

External links

• Wallace's home page at UC Berkeley.