David Shoemaker

Education

Biography

Faculty Member

Murphy Institute

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