Jonathan Jacobs

Professor, Presidential Scholar, and Chair of Philosophy, John Jay College, CUNY

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Wesleyan University

Research Interests

Metaethics

Moral Psychology

History of Philosophy (Medieval, Early Modern)

Criminal Justice (Aims and Justification of Punishment)

Courses Recently Taught

At John Jay College, CUNY:

Metaethics
Medieval Philosophy
Free Will, Responsibility, and Punshment

Representative Publications

Law, Reason, and Morality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Oxford University Press, (2010).

Dimensions of Moral Theory: An Introduction to Metaethics and Moral Psychology, Blackwell, (2002).

Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice,Cornell U. Press, (2001).

“The Reasons of the Commandments: Rational Tradition Without Natural Law,” in press, in Reason, Religion and Natural Law: Plato to Spinoza, ed. J. Jacobs, Oxford University Press, (2012).

“Reason, Will, and Human Action,” forthcoming in Blackwell History of Medieval Philosophy.

“Forgiveness and Perfection,” in Ancient Forgiveness, edited by Charles Griswold and David Konstan, Cambridge University Press, (2012).

“Criminal Justice and the Liberal Polity,” in Criminal Justice Ethics, August 2011.

“The Epistemology of Moral Tradition: A Defense of a Maimonidean Thesis,” The Review of Metaphysics, September 2010.

“Retributivism and Public Norms” in St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs, (2004).

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