Hello. I teach Philosophy at Grand Valley State University. Welcome to my website. :)

I’ve published widely across moral philosophy. Go here for my CV and a current list of publications.

My overarching goal is to make (or to help others make) significant progress on important and urgent moral problems. As an analytic philosopher, I care about things like precision and clarity, but I also care about whether my work truly matters.

I recently completed a duograph under contract with Oxford University Press entitled Our Relationships with Animals: A New Comprehensive Moral Theory and a New Approach in Animal Ethics. Go here to learn more.

I’m developing Quaker approaches to major problems in ethics and metaethics. Go here to learn more.

I’m working on philosophical issues concerning activism. Go here to learn more.

I co-edited a volume entitled Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents (Routledge, 2017). Go here to learn more.

I do not use AI in any of my writing for publication, nor do any of my coauthors.

My favorite places to be include: good vegan restaurants; bicycle parties; movie theaters. I’m originally from the American Midwest, and I can feel at home almost anywhere, although I share Nomy Arpaly’s preference for “air-conditioned democracies.” In the past, I’ve lived in a few far-flung locations: Istanbul, Türkiye; Melbourne, Australia.

Contact me at david.j.killoren@gmail.com.