J. David Velleman
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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.
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[edit] Biography
Velleman received his Ph.D. from Princeton 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.
[edit] Selected publications
[edit] 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, forthcoming, probably in 2009)
[edit] Articles
- (1985) "Practical Reflection," Philosophical Review 94(1): 33-61.
[edit] External Links
- Velleman's profile at NYU.
- So It Goes, The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy 1 (2006), 1–23.mp3 and pdf
