J. David Velleman

James David Velleman (* 1952 ) is Professor of Philosophy at New York University . His areas of work are ethics, moral psychology, action theory and action rationality.

Velleman received his PhD from Princeton in 1983. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . He is co-editor with Stephen Darwall of Philosophers' Imprint magazine .

In 2014 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

• Practical reflection . In: Philosophical Review . 94 (1), 1985, pp. 33-61.
• Practical reflection . Princeton University Press, 1989.
• Love as a moral emotion . In: American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (4), 1996, pp. 339-356. (German: Love as a moral feeling . In: Von Person zu Person , edited by Axel Honneth and Beate Rössler, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 60-104)
• The Possibility of Practical Reason . Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Self to Self . Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• How We Get Along . Cambridge University Press 2009.
• with Herlinde Pauer-Studer : Konrad Morgen. The conscience of a Nazi judge . London 2015, ISBN 978-1-349-50504-3 (German: »Because I'm now times a justice fanatic«. The case of SS judge Konrad Morgen . Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42599-2 ).

Web links

• Velleman's page at NYU
• Brandt's Definition of "Good" , The Philosophical Review, Vol. XCVII, No. 3 (July 1988): 353-371
• So It Goes , The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy 1 (2006), 1–23. mp3 and pdf for download