Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876

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J. David Velleman

J. David Velleman

Miller Research Professor

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Research Interests: Ethics, Moral Psychology

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

J. David Velleman (MA, Oxford, 1976; Ph.D., Princeton, 1983) is Miller Research Professor in Philosophy and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Bioethics at NYU.  Professor Velleman has worked in the philosophy of action, moral psychology, the foundations of ethics, the history of ethics, and bioethics. He has also written about narrative, psychoanalysis, and the philosophy of perception, and he has co-authored a book of empirical moral psychology on the career of the Nazi judge Konrad Morgen. His interactive, online course Blogic covers the standard curriculum of a first logic course for philosophy students. Velleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is co-founder and former co-editor of Philosophers’ Imprint,the first open-access journal in philosophy, now in its 23d year, and founding co-editor of The Raven,an online philosophy magazine.