Below is the audio recording of Stephen Darwall’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy: Head and Heart,” given at the 2024 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Philosophy: Head and Heart” by Stephen Darwall
Stephen Darwall is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 2008. He previously taught at the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a BA in philosophy from Yale University and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. His books include Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2025), The Heart and Its Attitudes (Oxford University Press, 2024), The Second-Person Standpoint: Morality, Respect, and Accountability (Harvard University Press, 2006), and Impartial Reason (Cornell University Press, 1983), as well as numerous anthologies in metaethics and normative ethics. His many awards and honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2023–2024) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2023–2024). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001. He was president of the APA Central Division in 2003–2004.
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