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Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Philosophy jbrunero2@unl.edu 402-472-2425 315L Louise Pound Hall

Representative publications include:

"Hypocrisy and Conditional Requirements," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

"Intention Persistence," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 104 (May 2022): 747-768.

"Reasons and Defeasible Reasoning," Philosophical Quarterly, 72 (January 2022):41-64.

Instrumental Rationality: The Normativity of Means-Ends Coherence (Oxford University Press, 2020)

“Cognitivism about Practical Rationality,” Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 9 (Oxford University Press, 2014): 18-44. [Awarded the 2016 American Philosophical Association Article Prize for "best article published in the previous two years by a younger scholar"]

Professor Brunero received his Ph.D. in 2006 from Columbia University. In 2013-2014, he was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He teaches courses in moral and legal philosophy. His research focuses primarily on questions in ethics and metaethics concerning reasons and rationality.

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