Samuel Scheffler, a moral and political philosophy scholar, will join New York University’s faculty, holding an appointment with the university’s Faculty of Arts and Science (Department of Philosophy) and an affiliate position with its School of Law.
Samuel Scheffler, a moral and political philosophy scholar, will join New York University’s faculty, holding an appointment with the university’s Faculty of Arts and Science (Department of Philosophy) and an affiliate position with its School of Law.
Scheffler, whose appointment begins in the fall of 2008, has been a recipient of both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships as well as a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include The Rejection of Consequentialism (1982), Human Morality (1992), and Boundaries and Allegiances (2001), all published by Oxford University Press. He also co-edited Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz and edited Consequentialism and Its Critics (1988), both published by Oxford. He is an advisory editor of the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs.
Scheffler, who received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1977, has taught in the University of California at Berkeley’s Department of Philosophy since 1977. Since 1997, he has also held an appointment at Berkeley’s School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he is a faculty member in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. He is currently the Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Professor of Philosophy and Law at Berkeley.