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Faculty of the Department |
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Associate Professor
Douglas Lavin |
| John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities |
| Emerson 304 |
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| lavin@fas.harvard.edu |
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| Douglas Lavin received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. His main interests are in ethics, history of ethics (especially Aristotle, Kant and Rousseau) and philosophy of action. Publications include: "Practical Reason and the Possibiltiy of Error," Ethics (2004), "Goodness and Desire" (with Matt Boyle) in Desire, Practical Reason and the Good, ed. Sergio Tenenbaum (OUP 2010), "Problems of Intellectualism: Raz on Reason and Its Objects," Jurisprudence (2011), and "Must There Be Basic Action?," Noûs (2012). Topics of his current work include: metaphysical presuppositions of internal or constitutive standards, the self-conscious character of normative judgment, the idea of a form of agency, some questions about the efficacy of other minds. |
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