Richard Moran () is an American philosopher. He is Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
, where he specializes in
philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are add ...
,
moral psychology and
philosophy of art
Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed th ...
.
Education and career
Moran received an
AB from
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...
in 1977 and a
PhD from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
in 1989, the latter under the supervision of
Sydney Shoemaker. He joined the faculty at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
as an assistant professor that same year. He accepted a tenured offer to teach in the Department of Philosophy at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
in Fall 1995.
Philosophical work
Moran has written several books including ''Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge'' (2001), ''The Philosophical Imagination'' (2017), and ''The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity'' (2018).
References
External links
*
'3:16' Interview with Richard Marshall
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moran, Richard
American philosophers
Harvard University faculty
Living people
Cornell University alumni
Philosophers of mind
Philosophers of art
Year of birth missing (living people)