Biography:Michael Stocker

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Short description: American philosopher
Michael Stocker
EducationHarvard University (Ph.D.), Columbia University (B.A.)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsSyracuse University
ThesisSupererogation (1965)
Doctoral advisorRoderick Firth, John Rawls
Main interests
moral psychology, moral philosophy, ethical theory
Notable ideas
Dirty hands and moral immorality, schizophrenia of modern ethical theories, plural and conflicting values, ethical and moral psychological significance of friendship and emotion

Michael Adam Gerber Stocker is an American philosopher and Irwin & Marjorie Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Syracuse University. [1] He is known for his works on ethics. Stocker is the author of the seminal paper The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories.[2]

Education

He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, where he was a student of Sidney Morgenbesser, and Ph.D. (1966) from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on supererogation under the direction of John Rawls.

Works

Books

  • Plural and Conflicting Values, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1990, reprinted 1992
  • Valuing Emotions (with Elizabeth Hegeman), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Select articles, book chapters (co-)authored


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