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David Shoemaker
Professor
On leave from Tulane, and unavailable for students, through 2023. Currently a Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1996, Philosophy.
M.A., University of California, Irvine, 1993, Philosophy.
B.A., Houghton College, Houghton, New York, 1985, Philosophy.
Biography
Faculty Member
New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR)
Co-founder and Co-editor, PEA Soup
Personal Website (with links to all papers, syllabi, and NOWAR info)
Academic Interests:
- Agency and Responsibility (moral and criminal)
- Personal Identity and Ethics
- Moral Psychology
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Applied Ethics/Biomedical Ethics
Books:
- Responsibility from the Margins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Knowledge, Nature, and Norms: An Introduction to Philosophy, a text and reader written and edited with Mark Timmons (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009).
- Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, (Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 2009).
- Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Vols. 1-3, General Editor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 2014, 2015; v. 2 co-edited with Neal Tognazzini).
Selected Articles (link to all of David Shoemaker's papers at PhilPapers):
- “Moral Torch Fishing: A Signaling Theory of Blame,” with Manuel Vargas, forthcoming in Nous.
- “Hurt Feelings,” Journal of Philosophy 116 (2019): 125-148.
- “You Oughta Know! Defending Angry Blame,” in Myisha Cherry and Owen Flanagan, eds., The Moral Psychology of Anger (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
- "Response-Dependent Responsibility; Or, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Blame," Philosophical Review 126: 481-527.
- "Huck vs. JoJo: The Moral Ignorance (A)symmetry," with David Faraci, Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (2014)
- "Ecumenical Attributability," in Randolph Clarke, Michael McKenna, and Angela Smith, The Nature of Responsibility (OUP, 2015)
- "Remnants of Character," in Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson, Moral Psychology and Human Agency (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- "The Stony Metaphysical Heart of Animalism," in Stephan Blatti and Paul Snowdon, Essays on Animalism (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- "Qualities of Will," Social Philosophy & Policy 30 (2013): 95-120
- "On Criminal and Moral Responsibility," in Mark Timmons, ed., Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics 3 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- "Blame and Punishment," in Justin Coates and Neal Tognazzini, eds., Blame: Its Nature and Norms (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- "Attributability, Answerability, and Accountability: Toward a Wider Theory of Moral Responsibility," Ethics 121 (2011): 602-632.
- "Personal Identity and Ethics," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (updated 2015), Edward N. Zalta, ed.
- "Moral Address, Moral Responsibility, and the Boundaries of the Moral Community," Ethics 118 (October 2007): 70-108.
- "Personal Identity and Practical Concerns," Mind 116 (April 2007): 317-357.
- "Caring, Identification, and Agency," Ethics 114 (October 2003): 88-118
