Tamler Sommers is an American philosopher and writer. He is the son of the American philosopher
Fred Sommers
Frederic Tamler Sommers (January 1, 1923 – October 2, 2014), better known as Fred Sommers, was an American philosopher who, after an initial focus on ontology generally, turned his attention specifically to a revival of classical logic. He ...
and the stepson of
Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. . Sommers specializes in ethics and
free will
Free will is the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.
Free will is closely linked to the concepts of moral responsibility, praise, culpability, sin, and other judgements which apply only to actio ...
, and has commented on the ethics of the
Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975), nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman, businessman and philanthropist. Rodriguez played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the ...
performance-enhancing drugs scandal. His book ''Why Honor Matters'' examines the nature of honor in American discourse and defends several aspects of honor cultures. He currently co-hosts the podcast Very Bad Wizards with
David A. Pizarro.
Sommers received his Ph.D. in philosophy at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 2005 and is currently a professor of philosophy at the
University of Houston
The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...
.
Books
* ''A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain'' (2009).
* ''Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility'' (2012).
* ''Why Honor Matters'' (2018).
References
External links
Tammler Sommers
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Living people
21st-century American philosophers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Jewish descent