Daniel Bonevac is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Co-founder and Principle Advocate at Jones & Bonevac LLC. 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 four others-- Today's Moral Issues, Beyond the Western Tradition, Understanding Non-Western Philosophy, and Introduction to World Philosophy (the last three with Stephen Phillips). He is currently completing a book, Jones & Bonevac on Advocacy, with Casey Jones, and is also writing a book on moral reasoning entitled Ways of the World.

Professor Bonevac's 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), "The Conditional Fallacy," (Philosophical Review, 2006, with Josh Dever and David Sosa), and “The Counterexample Fallacy” (Mind, in press, also with Dever and 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