J. David Velleman

J. David Velleman (born 1952)^[1] is an American philosopher. He is EmeritusProfessor ofPhilosophy andBioethics atNew York University^[2] and Miller Research Professor of Philosophy atJohns Hopkins University.^[3] He primarily works in the areas ofethics,moral psychology, and related areas such as thephilosophy of action, andpractical reasoning.^[4]

Education and career

Velleman received his Ph.D. fromPrinceton University in 1983 under the supervision ofDavid K. Lewis. He taught previously for more than twenty years at theUniversity of Michigan before moving to NYU.

He has receivedfellowships from theNational Endowment for the Humanities and theGuggenheim Foundation. He is founding co-editor with Stephen Darwall ofPhilosophers' Imprint,^[5] an on-line, peer-refereed philosophy journal. Several of his former students are now established philosophers, includingConnie Rosati at theUniversity of Texas, Austin andNishiten Shah atAmherst College.^{[citation needed]}

Velleman is a defender ofconstitutivism in ethics, arguing that moral standards arise from the nature of action.

Practical Reflection (Princeton University Press, 1989)
Self to Self (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
How We Get Along (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Foundations for Moral Relativism (Open Book Publishers, 2013)
Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (with Herlinde Pauer-Studer) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)ISBN 978-1-137-49695-9
The Possibility of Practical Reason (Second Edition, Maize Books, 2015)
Beyond Price: Essays on Life and Death (Open Book Publishers, 2015)

(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.
(1999) "Love as a Moral Emotion" inEthics 109, N° 2(January 1999):338–374.

'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.)