{{short description|American philosopher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox philosopher |region = Western philosophy |era= 21st-century philosophy |color = |image = |name = David Phillips |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |school_tradition = | institutions = University of Houston |main_interests = ethics | thesis_title = | thesis_url= | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors= | doctoral_students = |notable_ideas= | spouse= | education = Cornell University (PhD), Lincoln College, Oxford University (BA) | alma_mater= |influences = |influenced = |awards = Henry Wilde Prize<ref>{{cite web |title=The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy |url=https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/henry-wilde-prize-philosophy |website=Oxford University |language=en}}</ref> |website = }}
'''David Phillips''' is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He is known for his works on ethics.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stratton-Lake |first1=Philip |title=Review of Rossian Ethics: W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory |journal=NDPR |date=17 November 2019 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/rossian-ethics-w-d-ross-and-contemporary-moral-theory/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Skelton |first1=Anthony |title=Review of Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics: A Guide |journal=NDPR |date=30 October 2022 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/sidgwicks-the-methods-of-ethics-a-guide/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shaver |first1=Robert |title=David Phillips, Rossian Ethics: W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 216. |journal=Utilitas |date=December 2020 |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=506–509 |doi=10.1017/S0953820820000291 |language=en |issn=0953-8208}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Geninet |first1=Hortense |title=David Phillips, Sidgwickian Ethics (Oxford: University Press, 2011), pp. xii + 163. |journal=Utilitas |date=June 2014 |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=226–229 |doi=10.1017/S0953820814000041 |language=en |issn=0953-8208}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Fred |title=Sidgwickian Ethics, by David PhillipsSidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism, by Mariko Nakano-Okuno |journal=Victorian Studies |date=2014 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=352–354 |doi=10.2979/victorianstudies.56.2.352 |issn=0042-5222}}</ref>
==Books== *''Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics: A Guide'', Oxford University Press 2022 *''Rossian Ethics: W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory'', Oxford University Press 2019 * ''Sidgwickian Ethics'', Oxford University Press 2011
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==External links== *{{cite web |title=David Phillips |url=https://www.uh.edu/class/philosophy/people/phillips/ |website=University of Houston |language=en}}
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