Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 Office: 324 Shatzel Hall Office Phone: (419) 372-7218 email: djacob@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Daniel Jacobson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green and a Senior Research Fellow of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has held fellowships from the Princeton University Center for Human Values, NEH, ACLS, and the Mellon Foundation. His essay, "Sir Philip Sidney's Dilemma: On the ethical function of narrative art," was awarded the 1995 John Fisher Memorial Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics, for best essay by a junior scholar.

Jacobson works in moral philosophy, most broadly construed; and he has published on topics in aesthetics (focusing on the relation between moral and aesthetic value), the history of ethics (J. S. Mill), moral psychology (especially the philosophy of emotion), political and applied philosophy (freedom of speech), metaethics (sentimentalism and sensibility theory), and normative ethics (consequentialism and virtue ethics). Some of this work is collaborative, co-authored with Justin D’Arms of Ohio State University.

Jacobson has been commissioned to write the volume on Mill for The Routledge Philosophers series. His work on Mill has appeared in The Philosophical Review, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and The Philosophers' Imprint. In addition, he and D’Arms are currently working on a book entitled Rational Sentimentalism, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. D'Arms and Jacobson have published on sentimentalism in such journals as Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, the Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory, and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion (forthcoming). Jacobson is a member of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell Pub.): <http://www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/IEE.htm>.

Jacobson has taught at the University of Michigan; University of California, Berkeley; Wesleyan University; Ohio State University; the College of Charleston, and Franklin & Marshall College.

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Selected published papers and work in progress (pdf files):

• "In Praise of Immoral Art"
  
• "The Moralistic Fallacy: On the ‘Appropriateness’ of Emotion"
  
• "The Significance of Recalcitrant Emotion (or, Anti-Quasijudgmentalism)"
  
• "Seeing by Feeling: Virtues, Skills, and Moral Perception"
  
• "Mill on Liberty , Speech, and the Free Society"
  
• "J. S. Mill and the Diversity of Utilitarianism"

Recent graduate seminars:

• Sentimentalism
• The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill
• Value Theory
• Topics in Applied Political Philosophy: From Classical Liberalism to Neoconservativism
• Topics in Ethical Theory: Gibbard's Thinking How to Live and Darwall's The Second Person Standpoint
• An Overview of Ethical Theory

Department of Philosophy
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