New York University
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                                          David VellemanJ. David Velleman
Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics

Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 

Phone: (212) 998-8320

Fax: (212) 995-4179

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Office Hours: Monday, 3–4pm and Thursday, 10–11am 

Ph.D., Princeton, 1983

Personal Homepage:  http://nyu.academia.edu/DavidVelleman

J. DAVID VELLEMAN (Ph.D., Princeton, 1983), Professor of Philosophy. Professor Velleman's work in the philosophy of action includes the book Practical Reflection (Princeton 1989) and a collection of papers, The Possibility of Practical Reason (reprinted 2009, University of Michigan). His papers on the self are collected in a volume entitled Self to Self (Cambridge 2006). His most recent book, on the foundations of morality, is How We Get Along (Cambridge 2009). He has also published papers in bioethics and (with Paul Boghossian) on the metaphysics of color. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he serves (with Stephen Darwall) as founding co-Editor of Philosophers' Imprint.

Professor Velleman's papers are archived at the Social Science Research Network.

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