Allan Gibbard
Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Michigan
Angell Hall, 435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003
E-mail: gibbard [at-sign] umich.edu
My field of specialization is ethical theory. Within ethical theory, much of
my work has been in metaethics, on what moral terms and statements mean and
what moral judgments are. I am author of Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A
Theory of Normative Judgment (1990), Thinking How to Live (2003),
and a new book Meaning and Normativity
(2012). I have also worked in normative ethics, in the theory of social choice
(which straddles philosophy, economics, and political science), and to some
degree in philosophy of language and metaphysics. The new book explores claims
that the concept of meaning is a normative concept. I am interested in the
bearing of evolutionary theory on moral psychology.
2013 Winter: Philosophy
429, Ethical Analysis.
2012 Fall:
2010 Winter: Philosophy 296: Honors Introduction to Logic
2009 Fall: Philosophy 429: Ethical Analysis and the Candidacy Seminar.
2009 Winter: Philosophy 640: Seminar in Ethics, on current metaethics.
2008 Fall: Philosophy 429: Ethical Analysis at the advanced undergraduate / graduate level.
2008 Winter: Philosophy 611: Current Philosophy on the topic of meaning and normativity.
2007 Fall: I taught
Academic year 2006-07: On sabbatical doing research.
2006 Winter: I co-taught with Professors Peter Railton and Chandra Sripada, Philosophy 640: Seminar in Ethics on the topic of evolution and morality.
2005 Fall: I taught
2005 Winter: I taught Philosophy 611: Seminar in Current Philosophy, on the topic Meaning and Normativity.
2004 Fall: I taught
I am married to Beth Genne and my sons are Stephen Gibbard and George Gibbard.
