Assistant Professor

Hall Auditorium Room 208
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-2430
alonsofm@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Stanford University, 2008
• M.A. (with Distinction) in 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

Courses Taught

• PHL 131 | Introduction to Ethics
• PHL 310D: Action and Responsibility
• PHL 310E: Special Topics in Ethics
• PHL 311 | Ethical Theory
• PHL 312 | Contemporary Moral Problems
• PHL 410/510: Seminar in Metaethics
• PHL 411/511 | Advanced Ethical Theories
• PHL 450/550: Philosophy of Action
• PHL 620 | Mind, Action, and Normativity

Research Interests

• Ethics
• Philosophy of Action

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.