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Valerie Tiberius PhD UNC
Chapel Hill
Director of Undergraduate Studies
721 Heller |
My research interests are in ethics, meta-ethics, and moral psychology. My earlier published work aimed to articulate a naturalized account of practical reason and to defend a Humean account of normativity that explains the authority of naturalized norms. More recently, I have been working on well-being, the good life, and wisdom. These interests, and my general naturalist inclinations, have led me to be interested in the relationship between empirical psychology and philosophical accounts of the good life and virtue. My new book, The Reflective Life, aims to characterize the kind of wisdom that allows us to live a good life from our own point of view in light of recent findings in psychology about the limits of our rational powers. The graduate courses I teach tend to follow and inform my research interests. I have taught graduate seminars on topics such as virtue ethics, well-being and its moral importance, Humean naturalism in ethical theory, and constructivism. I also teach courses in the history of moral theories and in contemporary ethical theory. I teach some applied ethics at the undergraduate level, including a course in environmental ethics. |
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Selected Publications The Reflective Life: living wisely with our limits, Oxford University Press, 2008. “Substance and Procedure in Theories of Prudential Value”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy Volume 85 Issue 3, Sept. 2007. “Well-Being: Psychological Research for Philosophers”, Philosophy Compass 1/5, 2006, pp. 493-505. “Wisdom and Perspective”, The Journal of Philosophy, Volume CII, No. 4, April 2005, pp. 163-182. “Value Commitments and the Balanced Life”, Utilitas, Volume 17, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 24-45. "Cultural Differences and Philosophical Accounts of Well-Being", The Journal of Happiness Studies, 5, 2004, pp. 293-314. "Perspective: A Prudential Virtue", American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, No.4, Oct. 2002, pp. 305-324. "Humean Heroism: Value Commitments and the Source of Normativity", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 81, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 426-446. Deliberation about the Good: Justifying What We Value, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. |
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