About
Professor 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. He has also published in aesthetics and political philosophy. Professor Jacobson is currently working on the Mill volume for the Routledge Philosophers Series, as well as 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 University Center for Human Values, Princeton. Professor Jacobson is the Project Leader of The Science of Ethics, a three-year interdisciplinary project which comprises two summer workshops in moral psychology, support for two book projects, and an essay prize competition. The Science of Ethics project is funded in part by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Publications
“Moral Dumbfounding and Moral Stupefaction,” forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol. 2 (2012).
“Utilitarianism Without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill,” The Philosophical Review 117 (2008): 159-191.
“Seeing by Feeling: Virtues, Skills, and Moral Perception,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8 (2005): 387-409.
“The Significance of Recalcitrant Emotions (or, Anti-Quasijudgmentalism),” Philosophy 52 (2003): 127-45. Co-authored with Justin D’Arms.
“The Moralistic Fallacy: On the ‘Appropriateness’ of Emotions,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000): 65-90. Co-authored with Justin D’Arms.
“Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 29 (2000): 276-309.
“In Praise of Immoral Art,” Philosophical Topics 25 (1997): 155-99.
