Richard Moran (philosopher)

Richard Moran (/məˈrɑːn/) is an American philosopher. He is Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where he specializes in philosophy of mind, moral psychology and philosophy of art.^[1]

Richard Moran
Education
Alma mater	Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	Sydney Shoemaker
Philosophical work
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Philosophy of mind, moral psychology, philosophy of art

Education and career

Moran received an AB from Dartmouth College in 1977 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1989, the latter under the supervision of Sydney Shoemaker. He joined the faculty at Princeton University as an assistant professor that same year. He accepted a tenured offer to teach in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in Fall 1995.^[1][2]

Philosophical work

Moran has written several books including Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge (2001), The Philosophical Imagination (2017), and The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity (2018).^[3][4][5]