Stephen Darwall

A 1968 graduate of Yale University, he earned his PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh under Kurt Baier in 1972.https://campuspress.yale.edu/stephendarwall/files/2015/10/VitaeYale-1r8ucjd.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} 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 became, in 2006, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and moved to Yale.[http://www.yale.edu/darwall/ Stephen Darwall/Yale] He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001{{Cite web|url=http://news.yale.edu/2008/09/12/stephen-darwall-named-andrew-downey-orrick-professor|title=Stephen Darwall Named the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor|date=12 September 2008}} and was made a Guggenheim Fellow for philosophy in 2023.{{cite web |title=Fellow Page |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/stephen-darwall/ |website=Guggenheim Fellowship |access-date=May 10, 2023}} He and David Velleman are founding co-editors of Philosophers' Imprint. {{cite web |last1=Weinberg |first1=Justin |title=Philosophers' Imprint Seeks To Fill Editorial Positions |url=https://dailynous.com/2017/12/11/philosophers-imprint-seeks-fill-editorial-positions/ |website=Daily Nous}} He specializes in the foundations and history of ethics.{{cite journal |last1=Darwall |first1=Stephen |title=Grotius at the Creation of Modern Moral Philosophy |journal=Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie |date=January 2012 |volume=94 |issue=3 |doi=10.1515/agph-2012-0013 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/agph-2012-0013/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqig8Htc4NdNFh6asxaiB_7TdG7JvbW3J0Q5jwUHVc1YbF5v5X_}}

He is known for his contributions to ethical theory and the history of ethics. His seminal work, The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (2006), offers a perspective on the foundations of deontic morality, focusing on moral obligation, rights, and accountability.{{Cite journal |last=Sussman |first=David |date=2010-01-01 |title=The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jmp/7/3/article-p414_10.xml |journal=Journal of Moral Philosophy |language=en |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=414–416 |doi=10.1163/174552410X511482 |issn=1745-5243}} In this work, Darwall argues that the interpersonal nature of moral claims—what he terms the "second-person standpoint"—provides the basis for moral reasoning. {{Cite journal |last=Yaffe |first=Gideon |date=2010-01-01 |title=Comment on Stephen Darwall's The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect and Accountability |url=https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/3157 |journal=Faculty Scholarship Series |language=en}}

Darwall expanded on these ideas in two collections of essays, Morality, Authority, Law: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I and Honor, History, and Relationship: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II (2013).https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/81349/3/Darwallreview.pdf

In addition to his works on ethical theory, Darwall has worked on the history of ethics with publications like The British Moralists and the Internal ‘Ought’: 1640-1740 (1995){{Cite journal |last=Penelhum |first=Terence |date=1997 |title=The British Moralists and the Internal "Ought": 1640-1740. Stephen Darwall |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/233798 |journal=Ethics |volume=108 |issue=1 |pages=218–220 |doi=10.1086/233798 |issn=0014-1704}} and Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant (2023), the first in a planned series tracing the development of moral philosophy through the twentieth century.{{Cite journal |last=Setiya |first=Kieran |date=2024-10-01 |title=Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article/133/4/447/393177/Modern-Moral-Philosophy-From-Grotius-to-Kant |journal=Philosophical Review |language=en |volume=133 |issue=4 |pages=447–452 |doi=10.1215/00318108-11499614 |issn=0031-8108}}

His book The Heart and Its Attitudes (2024) examines the role of second-personal attitudes in fostering personal relationships and emotional connections, building on his earlier work on mutual accountability and morality.{{Cite web |last=www.ff.cuni.cz |first=Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy {{!}} |title=Stephen Darwall: Attitudes of the Will and Attitudes of the Heart |url=https://www.ff.cuni.cz/event/stephen-darwall-attitudes-attitudes-heart/ |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy |language=en-US}}

His other publications include Impartial Reason (1983), Philosophical Ethics (1998), and Welfare and Rational Care (2002), alongside seven edited anthologies, such as Moral Discourse and Practice (1997), co-edited with Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton.

• 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)
• Morality, Authority, and Law: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I (2013)
• Honor, History, and Relationships: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II (2013)
• Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant (2023).

He also has written an ethics textbook:

• Philosophical Ethics (1997)

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