Below is the audio recording of Julia Driver’s presidential address, “Practical Possibilities and the One-Thought-Too-Many Objection to Moral Deliberation,” given at the 2020 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.

The audio of the lecture is available here:

“Practical Possibilities and the One-Thought-Too-Many Objection to Moral Deliberation” by Julia Driver

Julia Driver is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. She works in normative ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. Her publications include Uneasy Virtue, Ethics: The Fundamentals, and Consequentialism, as well as a number of articles in journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy, and others. She has received an NEH Fellowship, a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship at Princeton University, the H.L.A. Hart Fellowship at Oxford University, and the Harsanyi Fellowship at ANU. She held a Professorial Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews through CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs). She served as president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2019–2020.

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