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 2020)
Papers Accessible Online
“Doables”, Phil. Explorations 17 (2014): 1–16
“Sociality and Solitude”, Phil. Explorations 16 (2013): 324–335
“The Self as Narrator”, Christman&Anderson, Autonomy & Challenges to Liberalism
Willing the Law”, in Baumann & Betzler eds., Practical Conflicts (2009)
“Don't Worry, Feel Guilty”, in Hatzimoysis, Philosophy and the Emotions (2009)
“Persons in Prospect", Phil. and Pub. Affairs 36 (2008): Part I, Part II, Part III
“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”, PhiTopics (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”, Phil. Rev. 94 (1985): 33 - 61
Not Readily Accessible Online
“Non-Identical and Impersonal”, in Sauchelli, Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons
"Time for Action", in Altshuler & Sigrist, Time and the Philosophy of Action
The Rights to a Life”, in Leader, On Life Writing
"The Way of the Wanton", in Atkins & MacKenzie, Practical Identity and Narrative Agency
"What Good is a Will?", in Leist, Action in Context
"Identification and Identity", in Buss & Overton, Contours of Agency
"Is Motivation Internal to Value?", in Fehige, Meggle, Wessels, Preferences
"Deciding How to Decide", in Cullity & Gaut, Ethics and Practical Reason
"Against the Right to Die", 17 Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (1992)
"The Doxastic Theory of Intention", in Georgeff & Lansky, Reasoning About Actions & Plans
Unpublished Essays in the History of Ethics (written for students)
"Fundamental Concepts in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics"
"Reading Kant's Groundwork"
"Notes on Mill's Utilitarianism"