Candace Vogler
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Candace A. Vogler is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Professor Vogler received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her specific fields of interest are ethics, feminism, action theory, as well as sexuality and gender studies. She has a particular emphasis on the works of Karl Marx, Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Elizabeth Anscombe. She strongly believes in the importance of a liberal arts education at the undergraduate level, considering it extremely important that students learn critical thinking skills in college, and has given many speeches and lectures on the value of an education in the liberal arts and humanities.
Professor Vogler is the author of John Stuart Mill’s Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001); Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and the co-editor (with Carol Breckenridge) of Critical Limits of Embodiment (Duke University Press, 2002) and (with Patchen Markell) of Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2003).
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Philosophy Faculty of the University of Chicago
Depauw University Colloquium on Liberal Education
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