Daniel Jacobson
Faculty Fellow 2016-2017
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Biography
Daniel Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, and his recent research focuses on issues in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. He is the co-editor, with Justin D’Arms, of Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014), and his work has appeared in a variety of prestigious scholarly journals and collected volumes. Recently, Professor Jacobson also served as Project Leader of “The Science of Ethics,” a three-year project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
During his tenure at the Murphy Institute, he worked on a project titled, “Reconstructing John Stuart Mill,” a monograph which argues for a new and unique interpretation of Mill's moral and political philosophy.