Michael Stocker | |
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Born | 1939 |
Died | 2024 |
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 |
Michael Adam Gerber Stocker was 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]
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.
Books
Select articles, book chapters (co-)authored