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Professor

• Fields of Study

  • Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology, Aesthetics, J.S. Mill

• About

  Daniel Jacobson works on a range of topics in ethics and moral psychology, especially issues concerning sentimentalism and the moral and political philosophy of J.S. Mill, and he has published extensively in these fields as well as in aesthetics and political philosophy. Jacobson is currently working on the Mill volume for the Routledge Philosophers Series and a collaborative book project, Rational Sentimentalism, with Professor Justin D'Arms (Ohio State) for Oxford University Press. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Jacobson is the Project Leader of The Science of Ethics, a three-year project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. 

• Education

  • 1994, Ph.D., University of Michigan
    1984, B.A., Yale University

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • (2012) Moral Dumbfounding and Moral Stupefaction, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics
  • (2008) Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill, Philosophical Review
  • (2005) Seeing by Feeling, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
  • (2003) The Significance of Recalcitrant Emotions (or, Anti-Quasijudgmentalism), Philosophy
  • (2000) The Moralistic Fallacy: On the "Appropriateness" of Emotions, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • (2000) Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society, Philosophy & Public Affairs
  • (1997) In Praise of Immoral Art, Philosophical Topics