William Talbott, Ph.D.

Professor for Practical Philosophy at the University of Washington

Resident at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities:
April‒May 2011

Research topic at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities:
»What is Moral Progress? How is it possible?«

Project involvement at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities:
Excellence Cluster »The formation of normative orders«

While at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, William Talbott will be working together with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Professor of Philosophy at Goethe University and Vice-president of the university).

Scholarly profile of William Talbott

Main areas of research:
Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Epistemology, Philosophy of Human Rights, Rational Choice Theory

1. Human Rights and Human Well-Being, Oxford University Press 2010.
2. Which Rights Should Be Universal? Oxford University Press 2005.
3. The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism: A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification, New York: Garland Publishing 1990.

Further academic activities:
Member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Human Rights, University of Washington