Samuel Scheffler
Samuel Scheffler (born October 20, 1951 ) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy and law at New York University .
Scheffler studied at Harvard (graduation as BA, 1973) and Princeton (graduation with Ph.D., 1977), where he was supervised by Thomas Nagel , among others . His main research interests are ethics and political philosophy . He was best known for his rejection of maximizing action- consequentialism , according to which we must always perform the best of all possible actions. From 1977 to 2008 he worked at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of California, Berkeley , most recently as Professor of Philosophy and Law. Then he was appointed to New York University, also as professor of philosophy and law. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004 .
Fonts
- The Rejection of Consequentialism (1982).
- Human Morality (1992).
- Boundaries and Allegiances (2001).
- Equality and Tradition (2010).
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Death and the Afterlife , The Berkeley Tanner lectures series , Oxford University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-998250-9
- German: Death and the afterlife , translated by Björn Brodowski, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2015 - ISBN 978-3-518-58623-5
- Why Worry About Future Generations? (2018).
Web links
- New York University Philosophical Institute website on Samuel Scheffler
- Texts by Samuel Scheffler on PhilPapers
- Literature by and about Samuel Scheffler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scheffler philosophy.berkeley.edu, accessed December 27, 2013.
- ↑ Entry at NYU , accessed on Jan 4, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Scheffler, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1951 |