Michael Stocker

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|birth_name = Michael Adam Gerber Stocker

|birth_date = 1939

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|death_date = 2024

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| institutions = Syracuse University

|main_interests = moral psychology, moral philosophy, ethical theory

| thesis_title = Supererogation

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| thesis_year = 1965

| doctoral_advisor = Roderick Firth, John Rawls

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| 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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| education = Harvard University (Ph.D.), Columbia College (B.A.)

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|influences = Sidney Morgenbesser

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Michael Adam Gerber Stocker was a 20th-century American political philosopher. He held the Irwin & Marjorie Guttag Professorship of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Syracuse University. {{cite web |title=Michael Stocker |url=https://philpeople.org/profiles/michael-stocker |website=PhilPeople |language=en}} Stocker is known for his works on ethics; he authored the seminal paper, "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories".{{cite web |title=The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories - Michael Stocker - The Journal of Philosophy (Philosophy Documentation Center) |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/citations?openform&fp=jphil&id=jphil_1976_0073_0014_0453_0466 |website=www.pdcnet.org}}

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

[https://www.pdcnet.org/revmetaph/content/revmetaph_1973_0027_0001_0042_0061 "Act and Agent Evaluations."] The Review of Metaphysics, Volume 27, Issue 1, September 1973, pp. 42-61.
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2025782 "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories."] The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 73, No. 14, August 1976, pp. 453-466
[https://www.pdcnet.org/jphil/content/jphil_1979_0076_0012_0738_0753 "Desiring the bad: An essay in moral psychology."] The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, Issue 12, December 1979, pp. 747-765
[https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026245 "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
[https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/XCI/363/398/1048103?redirectedFrom=fulltext "Responsibility Especially for Beliefs."] Mind, Vol. XCI, Issue 363, July 1982, pp. 398–417.
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0114.1986.tb00263.x "Dirty Hands and Conflicts of Values and of Desires in Aristotle's Ethics."] Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 67, 1986, pp. 36–61.

References

Category:20th-century American philosophers

Category:American political philosophers

Category:Kant scholars

Category:American philosophy academics

Category:Syracuse University faculty

Category:Academic staff of La Trobe University

Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni