J. David Velleman

Miller Research Professor of Philosophy,

Johns Hopkins University
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy,

New York University

Monographs

How We Get Along (Cambridge 2009)

On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy (Princeton 2020)

Foundations for Moral Relativism (2d ed.)  (Open Book 2023) +

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge (w/ Herlinde Pauer-Studer) (Palgrave 2015)

Collections 

The Possibility of Practical Reason (2d ed.) (Maize 2014) *

Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death (Open Book 2015) ^

Self to Self: Selected Essays (2d ed.) (Maize e 2020) †

Individual Papers Accessible Online 

+“Doables”, Phil. Explorations 17 (2014): 1–16
+ “Sociality and Solitude”, Phil. Explorations 16 (2013): 324–335
“The Self as Narrator”, in Christman and Anderson, Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism (2009)
†“Willing the Law”, in Baumann and Betzler, Practical Conflicts (2009)
†“Don't Worry, Feel Guilty”, in Hatzimoysis, Philosophy and the Emotions (2009)
^“Persons in Prospect I, II, III”, Phil. and Pub. Affairs 36 (2008): 222–28
“A Theory of Value”, Ethics 118 (2008): 410-436  |
^“Beyond Price”, Ethics 118 (2008): 191–212
“Bodies, Selves”, American Imago 65 (2008): pp.  405-426
†“So it Goes”, The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy 1 (2006)
“Narrative Explanation”, Phil. Rev. 112 (2003): 1-2
†“Motivation by Ideal”, Phil. Explorations 5 (2002): 89-104
†“The Genesis of Shame”, Phil. and Pub. Affairs 30 (2001): 27-52
†“From Self Psychology to Moral Philosophy”, Phil. Perspectives 14 (2000) 349-377
†“A Rational Superego”, Phil. Rev. 108 (1999): 529-58 
^“A Right of Self-Termination?”, Ethics 109 (1999): 606-28
†“ Love as a Moral Emotion”, Ethics 109 (1999): 338-74
†“The Voice of Conscience”, Proc. of the Aristotelian Society 99 (1999): 57-76 
*“How to Share an Intention”, Phil. and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997): 29-50
*“The Possibility of Practical Reason”, Ethics 106 (1996): 694 - 726
†“Self to Self”, Phil. Rev. 105 (1996): 39-76
*“The Story of Rational Action”, Phil. Topics (21) (1993): 229-54
*“What Happens When Someone Acts?”, Mind  101 (1992): 461 - 81
*“The Guise of the Good”, Nous 16 (1992): 3-26
^“Well-Being and Time”, Pacific Phil. Quarterly (1991): 48-77
*“ Epistemic Freedom”, Pacific Phil. Quarterly 70 (1989): 73 - 97
“Brandt's Definition of 'Good”, Phil. Rev. 97 (1988): 353-371
“Practical Reflection”, Rev. 94 (1985): 33 - 61
   
Not Individually Accessible Online
“Non-Identical and Impersonal”, in Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry, ed. Andrea  Sauchelli (Routledge, 2020) , pp. 249-60
^“The Rights to a Life”, in On Life Writing, ed. Zachary Leader (Oxford University Press, 2015)
*The Way of the Wanton", Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, ed. Atkins & MacKenzie (NY:  Routledge, 2008), 169–192
*"What Good is a Will?", in Action in Context, ed.Anton Leist (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter/Mouton, 2007), 193-215
†"The Self as Narrator", in Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism, ed. Joel Anderson and John Christman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) pp. 56-76
†"Identification and Identity", in Contours of Agency, a Festschrift for Harry Frankfurt, edited by Sarah Buss and Lee  Overton (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 91-123
"Is Motivation Internal to Value?", in Preferences, ed. by Christoph Fehige, Georg Meggle, and Ulla Wessels (Berlin: de  Gruyter, 1998), 29-52
*"Deciding How to Decide", in Ethics and Practical Reason, ed. Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut  (Oxford: Clarendon Press,  1997), 29 - 52
^ "Against the Right to Die", Journal of Medicine  and Philosophy 17 (1992): 665 - 81; reprinted in the 2d edition of Ethics in Practice, ed. Hugh  Lafollette
|"The Doxastic Theory of Intention", Reasoning About Actions and Plans, ed. by Michael P. Georgeff   and Amy L. Lansky   (Los Altos, 1987), pp. 361 - 93
"Time for Action"