| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 20th-century philosophy |
| Michael Stocker | |
| Birth Date: | 1939 |
| Death Date: | 2024 |
| Institutions: | Syracuse University |
| Main Interests: | moral psychology, moral philosophy, ethical theory |
| Thesis Title: | Supererogation |
| Thesis Url: | https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17516124?q&versionId=20541459 |
| Thesis Year: | 1965 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Roderick Firth, John Rawls |
| Notable Ideas: | Dirty hands and moral immorality, schizophrenia of modern ethical theories, plural and conflicting values, ethical and moral psychological significance of friendship and emotion |
| Education: | Harvard University (Ph.D.), Columbia College (B.A.) |
| Influences: | Sidney Morgenbesser |
Michael Adam Gerber Stocker was a 20th-century American political philosopher. He held the Irwin & Marjorie Guttag Professorship of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Syracuse University. [1] Stocker is known for his works on ethics; he authored the seminal paper, "The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories".[2]
He earned his B.A. from Columbia College, where he was a student of Sidney Morgenbesser, and Ph.D. (1966) from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on supererogation under the direction of John Rawls.
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