Biography

Douglas Portmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and a 2008-2009 Center Faculty Fellow. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of specialization include value theory, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Professor Portmore is a founding member of Pea Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia.

Publications

• “Are Moral Reasons Morally Overriding?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 11 (2008).
• “Dual-Ranking Act-Consequentialism,” Philosophical Studies 138 (2008).
• “Welfare, Achievement, and Self-Sacrifice,” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 2 (2007).
• “Desire Fulfillment and Posthumous Harm,” American Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2007).
• “Consequentializing Moral Theories,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2007).
• “Combining Teleological Ethics with Evaluator Relativism: A Promising Result,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005).
• “Position-Relative Consequentialism, Agent-Centered Options, and Supererogation,” Ethics 113 (2003).
• “Can an Act-Consequentialist Theory Be Agent-Relative?” American Philosophical Quarterly 38 (2001).
• “McNaughton and Rawling on the Agent-Relative/Agent‐Neutral Distinction,” Utilitas 13 (2001).
• “Commonsense Morality and Not Being Required to Maximize the Overall Good,” Philosophical Studies 100 (2000).
• “Does the Total Principle Have Any Repugnant Implications?” Ratio 12 (1999).
• “Can Consequentialism Be Reconciled with Our Common-Sense Moral Intuitions?” Philosophical Studies 91 (1998).