Stephen Darwall (born 1946) is a contemporary

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, best known for his work developing

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and

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themes. He is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at

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Education and career

A 1968 graduate of

, he earned his PhD in

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at the

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under

Kurt Baier Kurt Baier (26 January 1917 – 7 November 2010) was an Austrian moral philosopher who taught for most of his career in Australia and the United States. Life and career Born in Vienna, Austria, Baier studied law at the University of Vienna. I ...

in 1972. He began his teaching career at the

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in 1972, and then joined the Department of Philosophy at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

philosophy department, where he is, since 2006, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001. He and David Velleman are founding co-editors of ''

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''. He specializes in the foundations and history of ethics.

Selected works

*''Impartial Reason'' (1983) *''The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640–1740'' (1995) *''Welfare and Rational Care'' (2002) *''The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability'' (2006) He also has written an ethics textbook: *''Philosophical Ethics'' (1997)

References

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