Bio


Ralph Wedgwood is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. In 2025-26, he is visiting Stanford as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at CASBS (the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences). He works on epistemology and ethics (including metaethics, formal ethics, rational choice, normative ethical theory, and the history of ethics). He is the author of "The Nature of Normativity" (Oxford, 2007), "The Value of Rationality" (Oxford, 2017), and "Rationality and Belief" (Oxford, 2023), as well as more than 65 articles in journals and edited volumes.