Biography:Stephen Darwall

Short description: American philosopher

Stephen Darwall
Born	1946
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Main interests	Moral philosophy
Notable ideas	Second-person standpoint in ethics
Influences Immanuel Kant, Kurt Baier
Influenced Allen Buchanan, Marcia Baron

Stephen Darwall (born 1946) is a contemporary moral philosopher, best known for his work developing Kantian and deontological themes. He is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

Education and career

A 1968 graduate of Yale University, he earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh under Kurt Baier in 1972. He began his teaching career at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1972, and then joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan philosophy department, where he is, since 2006, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus. He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001. He and David Velleman are founding co-editors of Philosophers' Imprint. He specializes in the foundations and history of ethics.

Selected works

• Impartial Reason (1983)
• The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640–1740 (1995)
• Welfare and Rational Care (2002)
• The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (2006)

He also has written an ethics textbook:

• Philosophical Ethics (1997)