Statman

contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy / Virtue Ethics

b. 1956

Daniel Statman is an Israeli moral philosopher known for his work on virtue ethics, moral luck, and the ethics of war. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa and has contributed significantly to debates on self-defense, targeted killing, and Jewish ethics.

Notable Achievements

Edited the influential anthology Moral Luck (1993)

Authored Virtue Ethics: A Critical Reader (1997)

Developed influential work on the ethics of self-defense and targeted killing

Co-authored War by Agreement: A Contractarian Ethics of War (2021) with Yitzhak Benbaji

Advanced philosophical analysis of Jewish ethics and religious moral thought

Positions & Arguments(1)

Skepticism

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There is a fundamental tension between treating logical knowledge as a priori and the computational intractability of deciding logical validity.

Truth & Knowledge

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There is a fundamental tension between treating logical knowledge as a priori and the computational intractability of deciding logical validity.