Overview
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’s recent book, Emotion and virtue (Princeton, 2020), is the subject of symposia in Criminal Law and Philosophy (2024) and Analytic Philosophy (2024). His contribution to the first symposium, "Courage, consistency, and other conundra," responds to critical comments by Rachel Barney and Christian Miller. His contribution to the second, "Virtue and its moral psychology," responds to critical comments by Roger Crisp, Julia Driver, Justin D'Arms, and Mauro Rossi. The introduction to the second symposium doubles as a précis of the book.
Reviews of the book have appeared in Analysis, Mind, and the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Recent publications on rights or human rights:
- "Rights in rem and the multital ménagerie," Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2024): 1-16.
- “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) (2024): 387-407.
- “Legal human rights, as distinct from moral ones.” In J. Tomalty and K. Woods (eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Human Rights (2025), in press.
Recent publications in bioethics:
- "Varieties of minimalism about informed consent," American Journal of Bioethics 21(5) (2021): 66-8.
- "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.