Victoria McGeer

Victoria McGeer is a Professor jointly appointed at Princeton University (Senior Research Scholar in the University Center for Human Values with lecturing in Philosophy) and the Australian National University (Professor in Philosophy). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Her research spans moral psychology, agency development, responsibility theory, folk-psychological explanation, self-knowledge, and the metaphysics of mind. She has published extensively on reactive attitudes, trust, hope, blame, and restorative justice.

Her publications focus on moral psychology, agency theory, and philosophical foundations of responsibility. Recent work examines folk psychology enculturation, mindshaping, and scaffolding of agency through social practices.

Significant honors include:

• Royal Society of Canada's Alice Wilson Award for postdoctoral research
• Selection for The Philosopher's Annual (2015) for one of the ten best philosophy articles

She developed her research program through positions at Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley (with Alison Gopnik), and the McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences.