Es profesor en la Universidad de Notre Dame, donde ocupa la Cátedra de Notre Dame en Filosofía. Sus libros incluyen Religions Belief and Religious Skepticism (Notre Dame, 1982); Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason (Cambridge, 1989); Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity (Cambridge, 1999); French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2001 ), Michel Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2005), y What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy (Cambridge, 2009). Es co-editor de la revista online Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.