Manuel Vargas

Manuel Vargas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California San Diego.

He has written on free will, moral responsibility, topics in moral psychology, the history of philosophy in Latin America, and ethno-racial social identities. He is the author of BUILDING BETTER BEINGS: A THEORY OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY (Oxford, 2013), which was awarded the American Philosophical Association’s biennial Book Prize, the forthcoming MEXICAN PHILOSOPHY (Oxford), and he is one of the authors of the widely used textbook FOUR VIEWS ON FREE WILL (Wiley-Blackwell 2007, second edition 2024). He has co-edited several volumes, including THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MORAL PSYCHOLOGY (Oxford, 2022), RATIONAL AND SOCIAL AGENCY: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICHAEL BRATMAN (2014), THE LATINX PHILOSOPHY READER (Routledge, forthcoming), and a volume of OXFORD STUDIES IN AGENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY (2024). In addition to writing for popular publications in philosophy, he has been a frequent guest on radio programs and philosophy podcasts, including Philosophy Talk, Very Bad Wizards, the Kelly Corrigan Show, and others.