STEVE SVERDLIK

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. Columbia University, 1981

Philosophy Department
Hyer Hall 211D
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750142
Dallas TX 75275-0142

214-768-3364
sverdlik@smu.edu

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Current Research

I work on ethics, action theory, and moral psychology. I have been working lately on the deontic significance of motives, and have done some studies of the significance of motivations in various moral theories. I have also done some work on moral responsibility.

Representative Publications

• 'Crime and Moral Luck', American Philosophical Quarterly, 1988.
• 'Pure Negligence', American Philosophical Quarterly, 1993.
• 'Motives and Rightness', Ethics, 1996.
• 'Intention, Intentional Action and Moral Responsibility', with Al Mele, Philosophical Studies, 1996.
• 'Kant, Non-Accidentalness, and the Availability of Moral Worth', The Journal of Ethics, 2001.

Work in Progress

• A book-length manuscript, Motive and Rightness.
  • Summary
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8

Teaching

• Contemporary Moral Problems
• Moral Psychology
• Motives and Morality
• Aesthetic Experience and Judgement
• Pleasure and Happiness (Spring 2008)

Other than that

What I do for fun: read history, walk around cities, go to museums.