Research Bio

Niko Kolodny is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley. 
He received his B.A. (1994) from Williams, his M.A. (1996) from Oxford, and his Ph.D. (2003) from UC Berkeley. Before returning to Berkeley as Assistant Professor in 2005, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His main interests lie in moral and political philosophy.  Publications include The Pecking Order (Harvard University Press, 2023), “Why Be Rational?” (Mind, 2005), and “Love as Valuing a Relationship” (The Philosophical Review, 2003).

Research Expertise and Interest

moral philosophy, political philosophy