Julia Driver (born 1961) is professor of philosophy and holder of the Darrell K. Royal Chair in Ethics and American Society at the University of Texas, Austin.[1] She is a specialist in moral philosophy.
Education and career
She received her Ph.D. in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in 1990 under the supervision of Susan R. Wolf.[2] She received her BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983.
Before moving to Texas in 2019, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Dartmouth College, Virginia Tech, and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.[3] She and her husband philosopher Roy Sorensen are also professorial fellows at University of St Andrews. She has received a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship from Princeton University, NEH Fellowship, and an HLA Hart Fellowship at Oxford University. She is presently co-editor of the journal Ethics.
Philosophical work
She is the author of Uneasy Virtue, Consequentialism, and Ethics: The Fundamentals,[4] as well as many articles in ethics and moral psychology. She is the leading proponent of a consequentialist approach to virtue theory.[5] According to Driver, the virtues are character traits that systematically produce good consequences. Her proposal differs from that of many other theories as she argues that virtue does not always require knowledge. Indeed, virtue can at times be impeded by knowledge.[6]
In 2015, her book Consequentialism was translated by Iranian philosopher Shirzad Peik Herfeh into Persian.
See also
References
- ↑ Weinberg, Justin (17 June 2019). "Driver and Sorensen from Washington U. in St. Louis to UT Austin". Daily Nous. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ↑ "Julia Driver".
- ↑ Driver, Julia (2001). Uneasy Virtue. Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ "Julia Driver author page". Amazon. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
- ↑ Crisp, Roger. "Review". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. JSTOR 40040715.
- ↑ Driver, Julia. “The Virtues of Ignorance.” The Journal of Philosophy 86, no. 7 (1989): 373–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/2027146.