Russ Shafer-Landau (born 1963) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

[1] He has been teaching philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 2002, where he became chair of the department.

[2] Shafer-Landau returned to UW after a brief stint at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he also served as the Director of the Parr Center for Ethics.

Shafer-Landau is the founder and organizer for the annual Madison Metaethics Workshop (also referred to as MadMeta, founded in 2004) which followed him to North Carolina under the name "CHillMeta," before re-assuming its original identity when Shafer-Landau returned to UW.

"[4] Shafer-Landau is also the author of two other introductory books, Whatever Happened To Good And Evil?