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Facundo Alonso
Associate Professor
Philosophy

Facundo Alonso

Contact Info

513-529-2440
Hall Auditorium Room 208

Education

  • Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford University (2008)
  • M.A. (with Distinction) Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London (2001)
  • Licenciatura in Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1999)
  • Licenciatura in Political Science (High Honors), Universidad de Buenos Aires (1999)

Teaching Interests

  • Ethics
  • Philosophy of Action and Mind
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Law

Work in Progress

  • Norms for intention: between rationality and justification
  • Intentional action
  • The relation between individual and shared agency
  • Moral obligation

Courses Taught

  • PHL 131: Introduction to Ethics
  • PHL 131H: Introduction to Ethics (Honors Seminar)
  • PHL 310F: Action and Responsibility
  • PHL 310E: Special Topics in Ethics
  • PHL 311: Ethical Theory
  • PHL 312: Contemporary Moral Problems
  • PHL 410/510: Problems in Metaethics
  • PHL 411/511: Advanced Ethical Theories
  • PHL 450/550: Philosophy of Action
  • PHL 601: Teaching Philosophy Practicum
  • PHL 620: Mind, Action, and Normativity

Research Interests

My research is in the areas of philosophy of action and mind, and normative ethics, and in their connections to other areas of philosophy such as epistemology and philosophy of law.

  • Philosophy of action
  • Normative ethics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Philosophy of law

Selected Publications

  • “The Limits of Partial Doxasticism,” Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming.
  • “Planning on a Prior Intention,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 18 (2020): 229-265.
  • “Intending, Settling, and Relying,” in Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 4, edited by David Shoemaker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 50-74.
  • “Reductive Views of Shared Intention,” in Routledge Handbook on Collective Intentionality, edited by Kirk Ludwig and Marija Jankovic. London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 34-44.
  • “A Dual Aspect Theory of Shared Intention,” Journal of Social Ontology 2 (2016): 271-302.
  • “Reasons for Reliance,” Ethics 126 (2016): 311-338. 
  • “What is Reliance?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 44 (2014): 163-183.
  • “Shared Intention, Reliance, and Interpersonal Obligations,” Ethics 119 (2009): 444–475.
  • “Reliance and Intending the Joint Activity,” in Concepts of Sharedness, edited by Katinka Schulte-Ostermann, Hans Bernhard Schmid, and Nikos Psarros. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 211-224.

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