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词条 J. David Velleman
释义

  1. Education and career

  2. Philosophical work

     Books  Articles  Interviews 

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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J. David Velleman (born 1952)[1] is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He primarily works in the areas of ethics, moral psychology, and related areas such as the philosophy of action, and practical reasoning.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

Education and career

Velleman received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1983 under the supervision of David K. Lewis. He taught previously for more than twenty years at the University of Michigan before moving to NYU.

He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is founding co-editor with Stephen Darwall of Philosophers' Imprint,[2] an on-line, peer-refereed philosophy journal. Several of his former students are now established philosophers, including Connie Rosati at the University of Arizona and Nishiten Shah at Amherst College.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}}

Philosophical work

Velleman is a defender of constitutivism in ethics, arguing that moral standards arise from the nature of action.

The following is a partial list of Velleman's publications.

Books

  • Practical Reflection (Princeton University Press, 1989)
  • Self to Self (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
  • How We Get Along (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • Foundations for Moral Relativism (Open Book Publishers, 2013)
  • Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (with Herlinde Pauer-Studer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) {{ISBN|978-1-137-49695-9}}
  • The Possibility of Practical Reason (Second Edition, Maize Books, 2015)
  • Beyond Price: Essays on Life and Death (Open Book Publishers, 2015)

Articles

  • (1985) "Practical Reflection" Philosophical Review 94(1):33–61.
  • (1989) "Colour as a Secondary Quality" Mind XCVIII(389):81–103. [co-authored with Paul Boghossian]
  • (1992) "What Happens When Someone Acts?" Mind 101(403):461–481.
  • (1992) "The Guise of the Good" Noûs 26(1):3–26.
  • (1999) "Love as a Moral Emotion" in Ethics 109, N° 2(January 1999):338–374.

Interviews

  • 'Really Seeing Another' in Alex Voorhoeve, Conversations on Ethics Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-921537-9}}. (A conversation about Velleman's views on love and its relation to morality.)

See also

  • American philosophy
  • Collective intentionality
  • List of American philosophers
  • Paul F. Velleman

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://d-nb.info/gnd/136268552/about/html|title=DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|work=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.philosophersimprint.org|title=Philosophers' Imprint|work=philosophersimprint.org}}

External links

  • Velleman's profile at NYU.
  • So It Goes, The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy 1 (2006), 1–23.mp3 and pdf
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