Biography:Richard Moran (philosopher)

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Short description: American philosopher
Richard Moran
Alma materCornell University
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Doctoral advisorSydney Shoemaker
Main interests
Philosophy of mind, moral psychology, philosophy of art

Richard Moran (/məˈrɑːn/) is an American philosopher. He is Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where he specializes in philosophy of mind, moral psychology and philosophy of art.[1]

Education and career

Moran received an AB from Dartmouth College in 1977 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1989, the latter under the supervision of Sydney Shoemaker. He joined the faculty at Princeton University as an assistant professor that same year. He accepted a tenured offer to teach in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in Fall 1995.[1][2]

Philosophical work

Moran has written several books including Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge (2001), The Philosophical Imagination (2017), and The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity (2018).[3][4][5]

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