John Deigh

Biography

John Deigh joined the Texas faculty in 2003 after more than twenty years of teaching at Northwestern University. He is a professor in both the law school and the philosophy department. His primary areas of research are moral, political, and legal philosophy. He is widely known for his work in moral psychology. He is the author of The Sources of Moral Agency (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Emotions, Values and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2008), and An Introduction to Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His recent articles include "Is Empathy Required for Making Moral Judgments?" in Forms of Fellow Feeling: Empathy Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency, N Roughley & T. Schramme, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and "William James and the Rise of Scientific Psychology", Emotion Review (2014). Other articles include "Rights and the Authority of Law", University of Chicago Law Review (1984), "Cognitivism in the Theory of Emotions", Ethics (1994), "Empathy and Universalizability", Ethics (1995), and "All Kinds of Guilt", Law and Philosophy (1999).

Deigh serves on the editorial boards of Ethics, Analytic Philosophy, and Law and Philosophy and is an associate editor of the 9 volume International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley/Blackwell, 2013). From 1997-2008 he was the editor of Ethics. Deigh has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago and research fellowships at the Hastings Center and the RSSS of the Australian National University.