- Candace Vogler
Candace A. Vogler is a
professor ofPhilosophy at theUniversity of Chicago .Professor Vogler received her
Ph.D. in Philosophy from theUniversity of Pittsburgh . Her specific fields of interest areethics ,feminism ,action theory , and social and political philosophy, as well as sexuality andgender studies . She has special interest in English literature and literary theory, and did doctoral work in cultural studies with emphasis in 20th century French thought. Indeed, in 2000, she became one of two philosophers invited to [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~englinst/archive/2000/00_conf.html speak at the English Institute] in the seven decades of its history, the other beingStanley Cavell . She works onKarl Marx ,Thomas Aquinas ,John Stuart Mill ,Jean-Jacques Rousseau , andElizabeth Anscombe . She has emphasized the importance of aliberal arts education at the undergraduate level in various lectures, believing it extremely important that students learncritical thinking skills in college.From 2004 to 2007 Vogler was Co-Director of the Master of Arts Program in the
Humanities at the University of Chicago.Professor Vogler is the author of "John Stuart Mill’s Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology", published by
Routledge in 2001, and "Reasonably Vicious", published byHarvard University Press in 2002. Vogler also sits on the Editorial Committee of the scholarly journalPublic Culture and has co-edited two of its special issues, "Critical Limits of Embodiment" with Carol Breckenridge in 2002 and "Violence and Redemption" withPatchen Markell in 2003. Currently, she is editing the forthcomingOxford Companion to John Stuart Mill.ources
* [http://philosophy-data.uchicago.edu/index-faculty.cfm Philosophy Faculty of the University of Chicago]
* [http://www.frontlist.com/booklist/33112 Books by Candace Vogler]
* [http://www.depauw.edu/admin/acadaffairs/events/facultyEvents/CrimmelReport0506.asp Depauw University Colloquium on Liberal Education]
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