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Michael Stocker

American philosopher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Michael Adam Gerber Stocker was a 20th-century American political philosopher. He held the Irwin & Marjorie Guttag Professorship of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Syracuse University. [1] Stocker is known for his works on ethics; he authored the seminal paper, "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories".[2]

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Education

He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, where he was a student of Sidney Morgenbesser, and Ph.D. (1966) from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on supererogation under the direction of John Rawls.

Works

Books

  • Plural and Conflicting Values, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1990, reprinted 1992
  • Valuing Emotions (with Elizabeth Hegeman), New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996

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