Biography:Michael Stocker
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Short description: American philosopher
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Education | Harvard University (Ph.D.), Columbia University (B.A.) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | Syracuse University |
Thesis | Supererogation (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | Roderick 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 |
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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
- "Act and Agent Evaluations." The Review of Metaphysics, Volume 27, Issue 1, September 1973, pp. 42-61.
- "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories." The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 73, No. 14, August 1976, pp. 453-466
- "Desiring the bad: An essay in moral psychology." The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, Issue 12, December 1979, pp. 747-765
- "Values and Purposes: The Limits of Teleology and the Ends of Friendship." The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 78, No. 12, December 1981, pp. 747-765
- "Responsibility Especially for Beliefs." Mind, Vol. XCI, Issue 363, July 1982, pp. 398–417.
- "Dirty Hands and Conflicts of Values and of Desires in Aristotle's Ethics." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 67, 1986, pp. 36–61.
References
- ↑ "Michael Stocker" (in en). https://philpeople.org/profiles/michael-stocker.
- ↑ "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories - Michael Stocker - The Journal of Philosophy (Philosophy Documentation Center)". https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/citations?openform&fp=jphil&id=jphil_1976_0073_0014_0453_0466.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael Stocker.
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