R. Jay Wallace (born 1957) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and William and Trudy Ausfahl Chair at the University of California, Berkeley.

[1] He has taught philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1988-1996), and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1996-2000), joining the Berkeley faculty in 1999.

[2] He has held visiting positions at the Universität Bielefeld, in the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) at the Australian National University, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand).

[1] He declined the position of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University in 2013.

Wallace’s thesis is that our practices of holding persons responsible for their choices and actions, and reacting to those that offend against moral norms with blame, indignation or resentment, make perfectly good sense, even if determinism is true.