Alan Goldman

Kenan Professor of Humanities

Office: James Blair 134
Email: [[ahgold]]
Office Phone: (757) 221-2737
On leave: 2010-11

Background

Alan Goldman received his B.A. from Yale and Ph.D. from Columbia. Before becoming the Kenan Professor at Wlliam & Mary in 2002, he taught at the University of Miami for 25 years, 10 as chair of the department. He has held visiting positions at the University of Auckland, University of Michigan, and University of Colorado, as well as an NEH Fellowship in Residence at Princeton. He is the author of Justice and Reverse Discrimination (Princeton, 1979), The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1980), Empirical Knowledge (California, 1988), Moral Knowledge (Routledge, 1988), Aesthetic Value (Westview, 1995), and Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don't (Cambridge, 2002), as well as many articles in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of law.  His latest book, Reasons from Within: Desires and Values, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2009.  It was written with the support of year long fellowship grants from the ACLU and NEH.