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Last Update: 4/24/12

Director

Darrel Moellendorf is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He specializes in the areas of ethics and political philosophy. His recent and current research interests focus on global distributive justice, climate change and morality, justice war theory, and the political philosophy of reconciliation. He teaches courses in ethical theory, applied ethics, environmental ethics, modern political philosophy, contemporary political philosophy, and global justice. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, and is the author of two books: Cosmopolitan Justice, Westview Press, 2002; and Global Inequality Matters, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, forthcoming. Additionally he has co- edited three books: Global Justice: Seminal Essays (with Thomas Pogge), Paragon House 2008; Current Debates in Global Justice (with Gillian Brock), Springer 2005; and Jurisprudence (with Chris Roderer), Juta 2004. His research has been supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study, the James Hervey Johnson Charitable Educational Trust, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 1996 to 2002 he was a member of the Philosophy Department of the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), where he served as head of department 2001-2002. And in 2008-2009 he was a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Moellendorf was also a co-organizer of the mini-conference on global justice organized in conjunction with the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association that was held 27-30 March 2004. Click here for an anthology of selected papers from the mini-conference.

Click here for Moellendorf’s CV.

He can be reached at dmoellen@mail.sdsu.edu

"All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in a great degree, any of them almost entirely conquerable by human care and effort…every mind sufficiently intelligent and generous to bear a part, however small and inconspicuous, in the endeavour will draw a noble enjoyment from the conquest itself, which he would not for any bribe in the form of selfish indulgence consent to be without." (John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism)