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Professor
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
314 Thornton
646-9389
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Julia Driver received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins
University. Her research interests are in Ethical Theory, particularly
Consequentialism and Virtue Ethics. She received an NEH Fellowship for
2004-2005 for work on a book entitled The Greatest Happiness
Principle. She is a past recipient of a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship
from Princeton University and a Young Scholar’s Award from Cornell University’s
Program on Ethics and Public Life.
Professor Driver has published articles in journals such as The Journal of
Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Nous, The Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, and Ethics. Her book Uneasy Virtue is published by
Cambridge University Press (2001). Her current research focuses on objective
consequentialism, causation and consequentialism, and the relevance of
empirical research for normative ethical theory.
Courses
Fall 2007
- 37 (10A) Ethical Theory
- 80 (2A) Advanced Seminar: Hume's Moral Psychology
Winter 2008
- 8 (10) Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Spring 2008
Summer 2008
Fall 2008
- 9 (10) Topics in Applied Ethics: Extreme Ethics
- 37 (11) Ethical Theory
Winter 2009
- 8 (12) Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Spring 2009
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