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Victor Kumar
Victor Kumar received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto. His primary philosophical interests are in ethics, cognitive science, and evolutionary theory. He also has interests in epistemology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race.
Victor’s published work can be found in Ethics, Nous, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, and Cognition. In 2018 he was the first philosophy professor to be awarded the Peter Paul career development award from BU. His recent projects include essays on moral progress, moral luck, nudges, moral disgust, and moral learning. His book with Richmond Campbell on the evolution of morality and moral progress will be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
Email: vckumar@bu.edu
Directors Emeriti
Victor Kumar
Director (2025-2026)
Rachell Powell
Director (2023-2025)
Alisa Bokulich
Director (2010 – 2023)
Alfred Tauber
Director (1993 – 2010)
Robert S. Cohen
Director (1960 – 1993)
International Advisory Board
Edward Jones-Imhotep,
Director, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology
University of Toronto (Canada)
Alan Love,
Director, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota (U.S.)
Bryan Roberts,
Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural & Social Science
The London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
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