University of Maryland Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: Dan Moller

Dan Moller (B.Phil., Oxford, Ph.D., Princeton) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Before joining the Department, he was a Greenwall Fellow in bioethics at Johns Hopkins. His interests range widely across moral and political philosophy, but he is particularly interested in how fallibilism should influence our decision-making, and the role that affect should play in our judgments. Practical applications for this theoretical work include our susceptibility to errors in real-life decisions concerning, say, abortion or marriage, and the finding that most people are emotionally resilient even when losing their spouse. Other significant interests include subwoofers and table-tennis.

E-mail: dmoller@umd.edu

Personal Home Page http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dmoller


Representative Publications

"Meta-reasoning and Practical Deliberation," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).

"Love and Death," The Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).

"Should We Let People Starve - For Now?" Analysis 66 (2006), 240-247.