David Moshman
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Educational Psychology University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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230 TEAC
Lincoln NE 68588-0345 - Phone
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402-472-2226 On-campus 2-2226
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dmoshman1@unl.edu
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David Moshman taught developmental and cognitive psychology in the Ed Psych department from 1977 to 2015. The primary focus of his research is the nature and development of human rationality, including logical, scientific, and moral reasoning. He has also written extensively about adolescent competence and rights, education as the promotion of rationality, the intellectual freedom of students and teachers, the conceptualization of genocide, and the role of identity in group violence. He is the author of seven books, including Liberty and learning: Academic freedom for teachers and students (2009); Adolescent rationality and development: Cognition, morality, and identity (3rd edition, 2011); Epistemic cognition and development: The psychology of justification and truth (2015); and Reasoning, argumentation, and deliberative democracy (2021). He has also served as chair of Ed Psych, book review editor of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, associate editor of Educational Psychology Review, vice president of the Jean Piaget Society, president of the UNL AAUP chapter, president of the ACLU of Nebraska, and president of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska.