Gopal Sreenivasan

Gopal Sreenivasan (Ph.D. 1993, UC Berkeley) joined the Duke faculty in 2008.  His research interests cover a wide range of topics across the spectrum of moral and political philosophy.

Sreenivasan is the author, most recently, of Emotion and virtue (Princeton, 2020).  You can read a précis of the book here; and watch one here. Reviews have appeared in Analysis, Mind, and the Journal of Moral Philosophy. Two published symposia on the book are described below.

He also co-edited the Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Rights (MacMillan, in press).

Recent publications on moral psychology:
 
Responses to critics in two symposia on Emotion and virtue (2020):

• "Courage, consistency, and other conundra," Criminal Law and Philosophy 18(1) (2024): 281-96.

              engaging critical comments by Rachel Barney and Christian Miller. 

• "Virtue and its moral psychology," Analytic Philosophy 66(3) (2025): 472-92.

              engaging critical comments by Roger Crisp, Julia Driver, Justin D'Arms, and Mauro Rossi. 

Recent publications on rights or human rights:

• “Legal human rights, as distinct from moral ones.”  In J. Tomalty and K. Woods (eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Human Rights (2025): 38-49.
• "Rights in rem and the multital ménagerie," Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2024): 361-76.
• “Rights against the world,” Analysis 84(2) (2024): 311-19.
• “Rights and revolution: Is there a liberty to ‘go it alone’?,” Social Philosophy and Policy 40(2) (2023): 387-407.
• "Deontological rights.” In M. Gilbert, J. Helmreich, and G. Sreenivasan (eds.) Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Rights (in press).

Recent publications in bioethics:

• "Varieties of minimalism about informed consent," American Journal of Bioethics 21(5) (2021).
• "Injustice and inequalities in health," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2020).

But not everything belongs to a theme:

• “Three concepts of legitimacy,” Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 10 (2024): 1-27.
• "Deference and delegation: What is the difference?," Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie 3(2) (2020): 345-52.

VIDEOS

“Emotion and virtue, précis.”  Author-meets-critics panel.  APA, Central Division Meeting. 2021.
"What is courage?"  Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University. 2019.
"Should virtue be taught?"  Character Project Conference, Wake Forest University. 2015.


Paper links on this page connect to page proofs.  For published versions of articles, see my curriculum vitae, although those links may require a subscription.