Candace Vogler

Candace A. Vogler is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. She specializes in moral philosophy, philosophy of action, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Vogler received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 and has taught at the University of Chicago since 1994. From 2004 to 2007, she was Co-Director of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. She has also served on the Editorial Committee of the scholarly journal *Public Culture*. Vogler is a convert to the Roman Catholic Church. In 2015, she initiated the project "Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life" with Jennifer A. Frey, funded by a $2.5-million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. In 2019, *Comment* magazine published her personal article "A Spiritual Autobiography." In 2023, she was awarded the Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. Her philosophical work spans ethics, feminism, action theory, social and political philosophy, sexuality, and gender studies. She has a particular interest in English literature and literary theory, and her doctoral work focused on 20th-century French thought. Vogler has spoken at the English Institute and works with thinkers such as Karl Marx, Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Elizabeth Anscombe. She emphasizes the importance of a liberal arts education and critical thinking skills for undergraduates. She is the author of *John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology* (2001) and *Reasonably Vicious* (2002).