Richard Moran (/məˈrɑːn/) is an American philosopher.
[1] Moran received an AB from Dartmouth College in 1977 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1989, the latter under the supervision of Sydney Shoemaker.
He joined the faculty at Princeton University as an assistant professor that same year.
He accepted a tenured offer to teach in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in Fall 1995.
[1][2] Moran has written several books including Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge (2001), The Philosophical Imagination (2017), and The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity (2018).