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Fred Feldman | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 83–84) Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Bard College (B.A., 1963) SUNY (M.A., 1965) Brown University (Ph.D., 1968) |
| Influences | Roderick Chisholm |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Doctoral students | Peter Markie |
| Main interests | Ethical theory |
| Influenced | Robert S. Welch |
| Website | http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ffeldman |
Fred Feldman (born Newark,New Jersey,1941) is an American philosopher who specializes in ethical theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. His research primarily focused on normative ethics,metaethics,the nature of happiness,and justice. He had long been fascinated by philosophical problems about the nature and value of death. He received a NEH research fellowship for the academic year of 2008/09;he received a Conti Faculty research fellowship for the academic year of 2013/14. [1]
