Areas of Research/Interest: ethics, moral psychology

Selected Works:

J. DAVID VELLEMAN (Ph.D., Princeton, 1983), Professor of Philosophy.  Professor Velleman's work in the philosophy of action includes the book Practical Reflection and a series of papers entitled The Possibility of Practical Reason. A collection of his papers on the self was published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press under the title Self to Self. He will be publishing a new book, How We Get Along, with Cambridge University Press, probably in 2009.  He has also published papers on the right to die and (with Paul Boghossian) the metaphysics of color. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he serves (with Stephen Darwall) as founding co-Editor of Philosophers' Imprint.

Professor Velleman's papers are archived at the Social Science Research Network.