Stephen Darwall (born 1946) is a contemporary moral philosopher, best known for his work developing Kantian and deontological themes. He was named Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University in 2008.^[1]

Education and career

A 1968 graduate of Yale University, he earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh under Kurt Baier in 1972.^[2] He began his teaching career at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1972, and then joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan philosophy department, where he became, in 2006, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and moved to Yale.^[3] He has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001^[4] and was made a Guggenheim Fellow for philosophy in 2023.^[5] He and David Velleman are founding co-editors of Philosophers' Imprint. He specializes in the foundations and history of ethics.

Selected works

• Impartial Reason (1983)
• The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640–1740 (1995)
• Welfare and Rational Care (2002)
• The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (2006)
• Morality, Authority, and Law: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics I (2013)
• Honor, History, and Relationships: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics II (2013)
• Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant (2023).

He also has written an ethics textbook:

• Philosophical Ethics (1997)