James Dreier (born 1960) is an American philosopher and Judy C. Lewent and Mark L. Shapiro Professor of Philosophy at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. He is known for his work on

moral philosophy Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns ma ...

, including on the subject of metaethics.

Books

* James Dreier (ed.), ''Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory'', Blackwell, 2006, 331pp., ISBN 1405101792.

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External links

* 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics living people Brown University faculty American ethicists 1960 births Princeton University alumni {{US-philosopher-stub