Michael Adam Gerber Stocker is an American philosopher and Irwin & Marjorie Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at

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. He is known for his works on

ethics 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 m ...

. Stocker is the author of the seminal paper

The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories" is a 1976 paper in ethics by Michael Stocker published in ''The Journal of Philosophy''. Overview The central claim of the paper is that some modern ethical theories fail to account for motive in th ...

Education

He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, where he was a student of Sidney Morgenbesser, and Ph.D. (1966) from

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, where he wrote his dissertation on supererogation under the direction of John Rawls.

Works

Books * ''Plural and Conflicting Values'', Oxford: Oxford University Press 1990, reprinted 1992 * ''Valuing Emotions'' (with

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), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 Select articles, book chapters (co-)authored
"Act and Agent Evaluations."
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'', Volume 27, Issue 1, September 1973, pp. 42-61.
"The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories."
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'', Vol. 73, No. 14, August 1976, pp. 453-466
"Desiring the bad: An essay in moral psychology."
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'', Vol. 76, Issue 12, December 1979, pp. 747-765
"Values and Purposes: The Limits of Teleology and the Ends of Friendship."
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'', Vol. 78, No. 12, December 1981, pp. 747-765
"Responsibility Especially for Beliefs."
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'', Vol. XCI, Issue 363, July 1982, pp. 398–417.
"Dirty Hands and Conflicts of Values and of Desires in Aristotle's Ethics."
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'', Vol. 67, 1986, pp. 36–61.

References

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