Julia Driver is professor of philosophy and holder of the Darrell K. Royal Chair in Ethics and American Society at the

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. She is a specialist in

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Education and career

She received her Ph.D. in philosophy at

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in 1990 under the supervision of

Susan R. Wolf Susan Rose Wolf (born 1952) is an American moral philosopher and philosopher of action who is currently the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught previously at Johns Hopkins Univer ...

. She received her BA from the

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in 1983. Before moving to Texas in 2019, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis,

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, and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.. She and her husband philosopher Roy Sorensen are also professorial fellows at

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. She has received a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship from

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, NEH Fellowship, and an HLA Hart Fellowship at Oxford University. She is presently co-editor of the journal ''Ethics''.

Philosophical work

She is the author of ''Uneasy Virtue'', ''Consequentialism'', and ''Ethics: The Fundamentals'', as well as many articles in ethics and moral psychology. She is the leading proponent of a consequentialist approach to virtue theory. In 2015, her book ''Consequentialism'' was translated by Iranian philosopher Shirzad Peik Herfeh into Persian.

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Washington University bio
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Education and career

Philosophical work

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