Faculty

David Shoemaker is Associate Professor of Philosophy. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 1996. Before coming to Tulane, he was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and a Senior Research Fellow at BGSU’s Social Philosophy and Policy Center. In 2007-2008, he served as a Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. His research interests include contemporary ethical theory, metaphysics (in particular personal identity and agency), social & political philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, and moral psychology. Professor Shoemaker is currently working on a book-length manuscript, “Personal Identity and Ethics.”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

“Personal Identity and Practical Concerns,” Mind 116 (April 2007).

“Personal Identity and Ethics,” entry in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

“Embryos, Souls, and the Fourth Dimension,” Social Theory & Practice 31:1 (January 2005).

“Caring, Identification, and Agency,” Ethics 114 (October 2003).

“The Incoherence/Irrelevance of Non-Reductivism About Personal Identity,” Philo v. 5, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2002).

“Disintegrated Persons and Distributive Principles,” Ratio v. XV, no. 1 (March 2002).

“‘Dirty Words’ and the Offense Principle,” Law and Philosophy 19 (September 2000): 545-584.

“Reductionist Contractualism: Moral Motivation and the Expanding Self,” The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, September 2000.

“Selves and Moral Units,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, December 1999.

“Utilitarianism and Personal Identity,” Journal of Value Inquiry, June 1999.

“Theoretical Persons and Practical Agents,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, Fall 1996.