Russ Shafer-Landau

Russ Shafer-Landau (born 1963) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a graduate of Brown University and completed his PhD at the University of Arizona under Joel Feinberg. Shafer-Landau has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 2002, and previously taught at the University of Kansas (1992-2002) and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the founder and editor of 'Oxford Studies in Metaethics' and founded the annual Madison Metaethics Workshop. From 2020 to 2021, he served as the Central President of the American Philosophical Association. Shafer-Landau is a prominent defender of non-naturalistic moral realism, arguing that moral statements are not reducible to natural terms. This view is detailed in his book 'Moral Realism: A Defence'. He has also authored introductory texts like 'Whatever Happened To Good And Evil?' and 'The Fundamentals of Ethics'. Additionally, he has co-edited anthologies on ethics and edited 'Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy' with Joel Feinberg.