Name J. Velleman | ||
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Possibility of Practic, Self to Self: Selected Essays, How We Get Along, Foundations for Moral Relativism, Practical Reflection | ||
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J. David Velleman (born 1952) 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.
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- J david velleman discusses beyond price
- Education and career
- Philosophical work
- Books
- Articles
- Interviews
- References
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, 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.
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.