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Douglas Portmore

Program Chair, Professor of Philosophy

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Doug Portmore joined the University of Notre Dame in August 2025. Before that, he was professor of philosophy at Arizona State University for twenty years. Currently, he serves as editor-in-chief of Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy.

Portmore’s research focuses on morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two, but he has also written on well-being, moral worth, posthumous harm, moral responsibility, and the non-identity problem.