George Sher is the Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, where he has taught since 1991. Before coming to Rice, he taught first at Fairleigh Dickinson University and then at the University of Vermont. His research interests range over topics in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. He has edited or co-edited a number of anthologies, and is the author of seven books, including Desert (1987), Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics (1997), In Praise of Blame (2006), and Equality for Inegalitarians (Cambridge, 2014). His most recent project is a book on freedom of mind entitled A Wild West of the Mind.
