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J. David Velleman Department of Philosophy New York University	photo: Ronald Mersie	Mail: 5 Washington Place New York, New York 10003 Office: 5 Washington Place, Rm 303 tel: (212) 998-8320 fax: (212) 995-4179 e-mail: jdvelleman at nyu

My online papers are now archived at SSRN and indexed at PhOnline.
- Persons in Prospect: a series of papers on issues about personal identity, existence, and nonexistence (to appear in Philosophy and Public Affairs):
  - "The Identity Problem": even more probematic than the "non-identity" problem
  - "The Gift of Life": a sequel to "Family History", drawing on Seana Shiffrin's paper about wrongful life
  - "Love and Nonexistence": an argument for anti-realism about value, based on an analysis of the "non-identity" problem
- How We Get Along: lectures on metaethics, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
- "Bodies, Selves": on the actions of avatars (to appear in American Imago)
- Papers from The Possibility of Practical Reason, which is now out of print:
- "Against the Right to Die": unpublished revised version
- "So It Goes": The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy
Publications accessible (more or less) on the web:
- My books at Amazon.com
- Papers in anthologies:
  - "Willing the Law", in Practical Conflicts, ed. Peter Baumann and Monika Betzler
  - "The Self as Narrator", in Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism, ed. John Christman and Joel Anderson
  - "Don't Worry, Feel Guilty", in Philosophy and the Emotions, ed. Anthony Hatzimoysis
  - "Identification and Identity", in Contours of Agency; Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt, ed. Sarah Buss and Lee Overton
  - "What Good is a Will?" in Action in Context, ed. Anton Leist
  - "The Way of the Wanton" in Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, ed. Kim Atkins and Catriona MacKenzie
- Papers in journals:
  - "Practical Reflection", Philosophical Review 94 (1985): 33-61 (JSTOR)
  - "Brandt's Definition of 'Good'", Philosophical Review 97 (1988): 353-371 (JSTOR)
  - "Self to Self", Philosophical Review 105 (1996): 39-76 (JSTOR)
  - "Love as a Moral Emotion", Ethics 109 (1999): 338-374
  - "A Right of Self-Termination?", Ethics 109 (1999): 606-628
  - "The Voice of Conscience", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (1999): 57-76
  - "A Rational Superego", Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 529-558 (JSTOR)
  - "From Self-Psychology to Moral Philosophy", Philosophical Perspectives 14 (2000): 349-377 (Wiley interScience)
  - "The Genesis of Shame", Philosophy and Public Affairs 30 (2001): 27-52 (JSTOR)
  - "Motivation By Ideal", Philosophical Explorations 5 (2002): 89-104 (InformaWorld)
  - "Narrative Explanation", Philosophical Review 112 (2003): 1-25 (JSTOR)
  - "Beyond Price", Ethics 118 (2008): 191-212
  - "A Theory of Value", Ethics 118 (2008): 410-436
My conversation about time and the self with Georges Dreyfus at the Rubin Museum of Art
My interactive logic workbook: blogic

Visit a refereed electronic archive of original philosophy, which I edit with Stephen Darwall