Pamela Hieronymi

Pamela Hieronymi
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University
Main interests	Moral psychology, Moral responsibility, agency

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.