James Dreier (born 1960) is an American philosopher and Judy C. Lewent and Mark L. Shapiro Professor of Philosophy at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

. He is known for his work in

metaethics In metaphilosophy and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, ground, and meaning of moral judgment, ethical belief, or values. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by philosophers, the others being normativ ...

, especially on the subjects of

expressivism In meta-ethics, expressivism is a theory about the meaning of moral language. According to expressivism, sentences that employ moral terms – for example, "It is wrong to torture an innocent human being" – are not descriptive or fact-stating; ...

and metametaethics. Dreier is an associate editor of

Ethics (journal) ''Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1890 as the ''International Journal of Ethics'', renamed in 1938, and published since 1923 by the University of Chi ...

.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/et/board

Books

* James Dreier (ed.), ''Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory'', Blackwell, 2006, 331pp., ISBN 1405101792.

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* 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics living people Brown University faculty American ethicists 1960 births Princeton University alumni {{US-philosopher-stub