Stephen Darwall
Stephen Darwall is a contemporary moral philosopher, best known for his work developing Kantian and deontological themes. He is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.[1] He previously taught for two decades at the University of Michigan's philosophy department, where he was John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus.[2] He began his teacher career at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh under Kurt Baier. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001.[3] He and David Velleman are founding co-editors of Philosophers' Imprint.
He has written widely on the foundations and history of ethics, and his monographs include:
- Impartial Reason (1983)
- The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640–1740 (1995)
- Welfare and Rational Care (2002)
- The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (2006)
He also has written an ethics textbook:
- Philosophical Ethics (1997)