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Jennifer A. Frey
Title: | Assistant Professor Placement Officer |
Department: | Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | frey.jenn@gmail.com |
Phone: | 803-777-3728 |
Office: | Byrnes, Room 416 |
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Education
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests
Virtue Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Meta-ethics, and History of Philosophy.
My research lies at the intersection of virtue ethics, philosophy of action, and theories of rationality. I am the co-PI on a major research grant, "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning of Life."
Recent Publications
Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology Routledge, 2018.
- Happiness as the Constitutive Principle of Action in Thomas Aquinas” Philosophical Explorations, Volume 22 (2), forthcoming, 2019.
- “Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics, edited by Tom Angier, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2019.
- “Against Autonomy: Why Practical Reason Cannot be Pure,” special edition of Manuscrito, edited by David Horst and Sergio Tenenbaum, 41 (4), 2018: 159-193.
- “Aquinas on Sin, Self-Love, and Self-Transcendence,” in Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology, edited by Jennifer A. Frey and Candace Vogler, Routledge, 2018.
- “How to be an Ethical Naturalist” in Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue, edited by John Hacker-Wright, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 47-84.
- “G.E.M. Anscombe on the Analogical Unity of Intention in Perception and Action” (with Christopher Frey), Analytic Philosophy, 58:3, September 2017, 202-247.