Pamela Hieronymi

Pamela Hieronymi is an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is primarily recognized for her significant contributions to the fields of moral psychology, moral responsibility, and agency. Hieronymi earned her A.B. from Princeton University in 1992 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. She has been a faculty member at UCLA since July 2000, achieving tenure in 2007. Her research has been widely presented both nationally and internationally, and she has appeared on the public radio program *Philosophy Talk*. Additionally, her insights on technology and teaching have been published in the *Chronicle of Higher Education*. In 2010, she received the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies, and she spent the 2011–2012 academic year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Hieronymi's philosophical work delves into areas such as reasons, trust, forgiveness, and the voluntariness of belief, and has been influential and frequently cited. Notably, she served as an advisor on moral philosophy and ethics for the NBC sitcom *The Good Place*, becoming a consulting philosopher for the show and contributing to its exploration of philosophical themes like existentialism and the Trolley Problem. She even made a cameo appearance in the show's final episode.