Professor Sripada's research concerns a range of basic questions in ethics and moral psychology about humans as agents and decision-makers – questions about our virtues and successes as well as our pathologies and failures. His work seeks to wed perspectives from philosophy with methods and results from the empirical sciences, especially psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. He holds a joint appointment at the University of Michigan. One appointment is in the Department of Psychiatry, where he studies the neuroscience of decision-making and self-control, and breakdowns in these capacities associated with psychiatric disorders. His other appointment is in the Department of Philosophy, where he seeks to use novel findings emerging from the brain sciences to illuminate traditional philosophical questions. Recent papers and talks have explored the nature of intentional action, the neuroscience of self-control and its implications for weakness of will, the human ability for prospective cognition and its relation to free will, and the psychology and evolution of moral systems.