Thinking How to Live with Each Other

Allan Gibbard is Richard Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He graduated from Swarthmore College and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught at Achimota School in Ghana while in the Peace Corps, and at the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Society. His many publications include Manipulation of Voting Schemes: A General Result (1973); Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment (1990); Moral Discourse and Practice (coeditor with Stephen Darwall and Peter Railton, 1997); and Thinking How to Live (2003).