Professor Julia Driver

Julia Driver is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin.  She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Johns Hopkins University.  She works in normative ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. Her publications include Uneasy Virtue, Ethics: The Fundamentals, and Consequentialism, as well as a number of articles in journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, amongst others. She has received an NEH Fellowship, a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship at Princeton University, the H.L.A. Hart Fellowship at Oxford University, and the Harsanyi Fellowship at ANU.  She held a Professorial Fellowship at St. Andrews through CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs). She previously served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

She is currently working on several projects. Her primary project is a book on moral blame as a response to violations of normative expectations. The manuscript explores our practice of holding others accountable even in cases in which they have not violated any obligations, but have merely violated certain expectations arising out of, for example, the norms governing personal relationships and norms of common decency.  She is also working on a book in comparative philosophy on the topic of moral sentimentalism.