Candace Vogler

Candace A. Vogler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Vogler received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her specific fields of interest are ethics, feminism, action theory, and social and political philosophy, as well as sexuality and gender 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 speak at the English Institute in the seven decades of its history, the other being Stanley Cavell. She works on Karl Marx, Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Elizabeth Anscombe. She has emphasized the importance of a liberal arts education at the undergraduate level in various lectures, believing it extremely important that students learn critical 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.

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 by Harvard University Press in 2002. Vogler also sits on the Editorial Committee of the scholarly journal Public Culture and has co-edited two of its special issues, Critical Limits of Embodiment with Carol Breckenridge in 2002 and Violence and Redemption with Patchen Markell in 2003. Currently, she is editing the forthcoming Oxford Companion to John Stuart Mill.

Vogler also serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Public Culture.

Sources

• Candace Vogler's webpage at The University of Chicago Department of Philosophy website
• Books by Candace Vogler
• Depauw University Colloquium on Liberal Education