Candace Vogler

Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in The College at the University of Chicago. She has been teaching there since 1994. Her research focuses on ethics, social/political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender/sexuality studies, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism. She is Principal Investigator of the Templeton Foundation-funded project on virtue, happiness, and the meaning of life.

Education: PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh (1995), BA from Mills College (1985). She has authored two books and edited multiple volumes. Her work engages with Kantian ethics, Aristotelian metaphysics, and contemporary moral psychology, emphasizing practical philosophy's connection to everyday life.

Recent courses include Analytic Thomism: Philosophical Anthropology and Neo-Aristotelian Moral Philosophy. Her publications explore themes like moral agency, virtue ethics, and the intersection of philosophy with cinema and literature. She co-edited special issues on violence, redemption, and embodiment.

Grants: John Templeton Foundation project (Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning of Life). Collaborations include work with Jonathan Lear on neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy. Her office is in Wieboldt Hall 401.