Douglas W. Portmore is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, starting August 2025. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. His research focuses on morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two, but he has also written on well-being, moral worth, posthumous harm, moral responsibility, and the non-identity problem. Currently, he’s finishing up work on a book entitled Kantsequentialism: A Morality of Ends. Kantsequentialism is a new moral theory that combines the best aspects of both utilitarianism and Kantianism. It holds that our obligations to adopt ends (i.e., our telic obligations) are more fundamental than our obligations to perform actions (i.e., our praxic obligations).