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.
Selected Publications
Books/Collections
John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge Revivals, 2016)
Violence and Redemption, co-edited with Patchen Markell, special issue of Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2003)
Reasonably Vicious (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Critical Limits of Embodiment, co-edited with Carol Breckenridge, special issue of Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2002)
Articles and Chapters
"You Owe It to Yourself," in Ethics and Culture: Essays in Honor of David Solomon, ed. Raymond Hain (forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press)
"Turning to Aquinas on Virtue," in Oxford Handbook of Virtue Ethics, ed. Nancy Snow (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
"Self-Transcendence, in Varieties of Virtue Ethics," ed. David Carr (forthcoming, Palgrave MacMillan Press)
"Nothing Added," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2016)
"Good and Bad in Human Action," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2014)
"Natural Virtue and Proper Upbringing," Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Julia Peters (Routledge, 2013)
Aristotle, Aquinas, Anscombe and the New Virtue Ethics," in Aquinas's Reception of the
Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Media
Candace Vogler's Recorded Interviews and Lectures
For full list of Candace Vogler's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.