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  • Cohon, Rachel,

Cohon, Rachel, 1954- (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Cohon, Rachel, 1954-

nuc89-16301: Her The rationality of moral conduct, 1986 (hdg. on CLU rept.: Cohon, Rachel, 1954- ; usage: Rachel Cohon)

Hume's morality : feeling and fabrication, 2008: title page (Rachel Cohon)

University at Albany, via WWW, April 18, 2022 (Rachel Cohon; Philisophy Professor, University at Albany; Ph. D., UCLA; her fields of interest are ethics, the philosophy of action, and the history of ethics; she is the author of Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication (Oxford University Press, 2008); she has also written a number of articles on Hume's moral and political philosophy and theory of the passions, and on systematic topics related to normative reasons for action; she edited a volume of articles on Hume's ethics, Hume: Moral and Political Philosophy (2001), and wrote the entry on Hume's moral and political philosophy in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; she is also interested in applied ethics and wrote the article on ethical issues pertaining to disability for the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (2003); she teaches graduate courses in moral theory, including such topics as consequentialism vs. deontology vs. virtue ethics, moral realism, the normativity of ethics, and eighteenth century moral philosophy)