Most underrated philosopher of the week

Last week I mentioned Joel Anderson as "one of the most underrated philosophers of our time:" http://www.newappsblog.com/2010/10/extending-selves-before-procrastinating.html

So this gave me idea to start a weekly entry on (living) underrated philosophers. Here are the rules: 1. no dead people; 2. no people currently or about to be employed in a Leiter top 50 department (even thought these are also filled with underrated folk); 3. no former dissertation advisors, or other teachers from graduate school; 4. no former students. Nominations are most welcome (but I have a decent backlog of candidates).

So, this week's most underrated philosopher is Rachel Cohon <http://www.albany.edu/philosophy/cohon/>, who has written the very best book on Hume's ethics: Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication (Oxford University Press, 2008). It is clear and, original, and often simply right. It shows that close careful exegesis combined with analytic rigor can unearth profundity. (I say this while standing for a very different approach to the history of philosophy.) Rachel is also a very versatile ethicist working in action theory and applied ethics.