Pamela Hieronymi

Pamela Hieronymi is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary research area is moral psychology, with a special emphasis on issues of responsibility and agency. Her work on these topics, as well as her work on reasons, trust, forgiveness, and the voluntariness of belief, has been influential and widely cited. In 2010 she won the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies. She spent the 2011–2012 academic year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Hieronymi earned her A.B. from Princeton University in 1992 and earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. She has worked at UCLA since July 2000, where she was awarded tenure in 2007. She has presented her research widely, both nationally and internationally. In addition, she has appeared on Philosophy Talk public radio and her thoughts on technology and teaching were published by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

• Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, ACLS, September 2011–June 2012
• Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, September 2011–June 2012
• Assistant Professor Career Development Grant, UCLA, March–June 2006
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, American Council of Learned Societies, July 2003–May 2004
• Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, May–June 2003
• Carrier Prize, Harvard University Department of Philosophy, July 2001
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, June 1999–June 2000

• “Don’t Confuse Technology with Teaching,” Chronicle of Higher Education 63, no. 44 (August 13, 2012): A19
• “Reasons for Action,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 111 (2011): 407–27.
• “Believing at Will,” Belief and Agency, David Hunter, ed., The Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 35 (2009): 149–187.
• “Of Metaphysics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism,” Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon, R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011): 101–128.
• “Two Kinds of Agency,” Mental Actions, Lucy O’Brien and Matthew Soteriou, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2009): 138–62.
• “The Reasons of Trust,” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86, no. 2 (June 2008): 213–36.
• “Controlling Attitudes,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87, no. 1 (March 2006): 45–74.
• “The Wrong Kind of Reason,” The Journal of Philosophy 102, no. 9 (September 2005): 437–57.
• “The Force and Fairness of Blame,” Philosophical Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2004): 115–48.
• “Articulating an Uncompromising Forgiveness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62, no. 3 (May 2001): 529–55.