Elijah Millgram
E.E. Ericksen Professor, Philosophy
Graduate Director, Philosophy
Philosophy
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
215 South Central Campus Drive, 4th Floor
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 467 CTIHB
Office Hours: Wed. 12:00-1:00 and by appointment
Office Phone: (801) 581-7017
Email:
My Website: www.philosophy.utah.edu/faculty/millgram/
Degrees:
1991 Ph.D. Harvard University
1984 A.B. Harvard University
Elijah Millgram received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1991, and taught at Princeton and Vanderbilt before joining the faculty at Utah in 1999. His research focuses on the theory of rationality;
he is the author of Practical Induction (Harvard UP, 1997), Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory (Cambridge UP, 2005), and
Hard Truths (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). His historical research interests include Mill and Nietzsche.
Selected Publications:
Hard Truths (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
(Book), 2009
D'oł venons-nous... Que sommes nous... Oł allons-nous? In Daniel Callcut, Reading Bernard Williams (New York: Routledge, 2009): 141-165.
(Book Section), 2009
The Persistence of Moral Skepticism and the Limits of Moral Education, in H. Siegel, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009): 245-259.
(Book Section), 2009
John Stuart Mill, Determinism, and the Problem of Induction. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87(2): 183-199.
(Journal Article), 2009
Liberty, the Higher Pleasures, and Mill's Missing Science of Ethnic Jokes. Social Philosophy and Policy, 26(1): 326-353.
(Journal Article), 2009
Practical Reasoning for Serial Hyperspecializers, Philosophical Explorations 12(3): 261-278.
(Journal Article), 2009
Current Courses
PHIL 3820-1 Meaning of Life
PHIL 5193-1 Philosophy of _____
PHIL 6193-1 "Philosophy of"
Courses I Teach
PHIL 3820 Meaning of Life
PHIL 5191 Philosophy of _____
PHIL 5193 Philosophy of _____
PHIL 6190 Phil Of...
PHIL 6193 "Philosophy of"
PHIL 7480 Sem-Phil Of Language
Awards
2009
Student Choice Teaching Award - ASUU
2009
Residenz-Stipendium - Klassik Stiftung Weimar
2008
Visiting Fellow - All Souls College
2003
Residence - Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center
2002
Residential Fellowship - Bellagio Study and Conference Center/Rockefeller Foundation
1999
Gregory Kavka Memorial Prize - American Philosophical Association
1999
Fellowship - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1996
Fellowship for University Teachers - National Endowment for the Humanities