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
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):
- "Response-Dependent Responsibility; Or, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Blame," Philosophical Review, forthcoming 2017
- "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
