Douglas W. Portmore, previously professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame, where he will be professor of philosophy.

Professor Portmore is known for his work in normative ethics. He is the author of, among other things, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (2019) and Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality (2011), and he is currently writing a book entitled Kantsequentialism: A Morality of Ends. He is the editor-in-chief of Ethics. You can learn more about him and his research here and here.

Portmore’s hire is due in part to the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative, “a University-wide strategic effort that aims to establish Notre Dame as a premier global destination for the study of ethics.”

He takes up his new position in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in the fall of 2025, though he won’t start teaching there until the spring of 2026.