Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh

The Thomistic Institute at Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh presents a lecture by Prof. Candace Vogler of the University of Chicago titled “Moral Progress: What Does it Mean to Become a Better Person?”

Wednesday, March 22

5:00 PM

Crawford Hall 169

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator on "Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life," a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.  She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas.  Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particularly the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant's ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism.