Daniel Bonevac is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, majored in philosophy at Haverford College, and got his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, working primarily with Wilfrid Sellars, Gerald Massey, and Carl Hempel.

Professor Bonevac's research focuses on the intersection of metaphysics, philosophical logic, and ethics. His first book, Reduction in the Abstract Sciences, received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy. He has written four other books-- Deduction, The Art and Science of Logic, Simple Logic, and Worldly Wisdom-- and edited or co-edited three others-- Today's Moral Issues, Beyond the Western Tradition, and Understanding Non-Western Philosophy. He is currently writing a book on moral reasoning entitled Ways of the World, and editing a volume, Introduction to World Philosophy, with Stephen Phillips, which will soon be published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Bonevac's recent articles include "Against Conditional Obligation" (Noûs, 1998), "Sellars v. the Given" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2002), "Reflection Without Equilibrium," Journal of Philosophy (2004), "Free Choice Permission Is Strong Permission" (Synthese, 2005, with Nicholas Asher), and "The Conditional Fallacy," (Philosophical Review, 2006, with Josh Dever and David Sosa).

Courses Professor Bonevac teaches:

• PHL 301 Introduction to Philosophy
• PHL 302 World Philosophy
• PHL 304 Contemporary Moral Problems
• UGS 303 Ideas of the Twentieth Century
• PHL 325K Ethical Theories
• PHL 354 History of Christian Philosophy
• PHL 389 Logic

Books he's read recently:

• Christine Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends
• Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
• Paul Guyer (ed.), Kant's Groundwrok of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Jon Steel, Perfect Pitch
• Jon Steel, Truth, Lies, and Advertising
• Boethius, De Topiciis Differentiis
• Boethius, In Ciceronis Topica
• Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics
• Chaim Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, The New Rhetoric
• Aristotle, Topics
• Cicero, Topics
• Madame de Stael, On the Influence of the Passions
• Mirabai, For Love of the Dark One
• T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other
• John Roemer, Theories of Distributive Justice
• Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
• Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm
• Winston Churchill, Their Finest Hour
• Rex Martin and David A. Reidy (ed.), Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?
• Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes
• Francisco Sanches, That Nothing Is Known
• Juan Luis Vives, Introduction to Wisdom
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Professor Bonevac's hobbies include singing bass, playing bass, piano, organ, and synthesizer, composing music, and studying early American music.