J. David Velleman

J. David Velleman is a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He taught previously for more than twenty years at the University of Michigan. He primarily works in the areas of ethics, moral psychology, and related areas such as the philosophy of action and practical reasoning.

Biography

Velleman received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1983. 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,^[1] 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.

Works

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

Books

• Practical Reflection (Princeton University Press, 1989)
• The Possibility of Practical Reason (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Self to Self (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• How We Get Along (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

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.

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

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

References

1. ^ Philosophers' Imprint

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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