Assistant Professor

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Office: 2279 Social Sciences and Humanities Building

Phone: (530) 752-5653

E-mail: pekkav@ucdavis.edu

Ph.D.: Cornell University, 2002

Dissertation: "Ruling Reasons: A Defense of Moral Generalism," directed by Nicholas Sturgeon

Areas of Specialization: Ethics and value theory, practical rationality, epistemology

Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2002

2007-2008 Course Schedule

Fall
Not Teaching

Winter
116 Ethical Theories
201B Proseminar II

Spring
Not Teaching

Other Courses
24 Introduction to Ethics and Poltical Philosophy
117 Foundations of Ethics
128 Rationality
189D Topics in Ethics
214 Ethics Seminar

Recent Publications

"Moral Generalism: Enjoy in Moderation," Ethics 116 (2006), 707-41.
"Some Good and Bad News for Ethical Intuitionism," The Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

Currently Supervising Dissertations

Brooke Roberts