Edward D. Sherline, Department Head
Associate Professor

Summer 2013 Office Hours

By appointment only

B.A. Princeton University 1982; M.A. University of Chicago 1983; Ph.D. University of Illinois-Chicago 1990; Head of the Department of Philosophy 2002; Associate Professor of Philosophy 1996, 1989. 

UW Recognition:

College of Arts and Sciences 2012 Top Ten Teacher

Courses most recently taught:

• PHIL 1000, Introduction to Philosophy

• PHIL 3000, Ethics of War and Peace

• PHIL 3250, Global Justice

• PHIL 3300, Ethical Theory

• PHIL 3350, History of Moral Philosophy

• PHIL 4300/5300, Topics in Ethics

Graduate Seminars taught:

• Stephen Darwall, The Second Person Standpoint

• The moral philosophy of Thomas Scanlon

• Contemporary metaethics

• Derek Parfit, Climbing the Mountain

• Value, the good, well-being

• Practical reason

• Liberalism, Neutrality and Perfectionism

• Meta-normative theories

• Normativity

• Moral objectivity, motivation and normativity; recent work by Michael Smith and Christine Korsgaard