Angela Smith

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Angela Smith's primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy, and especially in the area of moral psychology. She has also published work in ancient philosophy, and has research interests in the history of modern moral philosophy.

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D.
Willamette University, B.A.

Research

Moral philosophy
Political philosophy
Moral psychology

Teaching

Phil 140: Introduction to Ethics
Phil 145: Contemporary Moral Problems
Phil 221 / Clas 221: Plato
Phil 248: The Ethics of War
Phil 256: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Phil 335 / Bus 335: The Ethics of Globalization
Phil 342: Metaethics
Phil 344: Virtue Ethics

Selected Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Moral Blame and Moral Protest," in Blame: Its Nature and Norms, ed. Justin Coates and Neal Tognazinni (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013): 27-48
• "Attributability, Answerability, and Accountability: In Defense of a Unified Account," Ethics 122 (April 2012): 575-589.
• "The Trouble with Tolerance," in Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T. M. Scanlon, ed. R. Jay Wallace, Rahul Kumar, and Samuel Freeman (Oxford University Press, 2011): 235-256
• "Guilty Thoughts," in Morality and the Emotions, ed. Carla Bagnoli (Oxford University Press, 2011): 235-256
• “Character, Blameworthiness, and Blame: Comments on George Sher’s, In Praise of Blame," Philosophical Studies 137 (2008): 31-39
• "On Being Responsible and Holding Responsible," Journal of Ethics, 11 (2007): 465-484
• “Control, Responsibility, and Moral Assessment,” Philosophical Studies, 138 (2008): 367-392
• "Making a Difference, Making a Statement, and Making Conversation," Symposium on John Martin Fischer's My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility, Philosophical Books (Summer 2006)
• "Responsibility for Attitudes: Activity and Passivity in Mental Life," Ethics 115 (2005): 236-271
• “Conflicting Attitudes, Moral Agency, and Conceptions of the Self,” Philosophical Topics 32 (2004):331-352
• "Identification and Responsibility," in Moral Responsibility and Ontology, ed. by Ton van den Beld (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000):233-246
• "Knowledge and Expertise in the Early Platonic Dialogues,, Archiv für Geschichte Der Philosophie 80 (1998): 129-161

Reviews

• Review of Moral Sentimentalism, by Michael Slote, Analysis 71 (2011):. 197-200
• Review of Who Knew? Responsibility without Awareness, by George Sher, Social Theory and Practice 36 (2010): 515-524
• Review of Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage: An Essay on Free Will, by Nomy Arpaly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (January 2007)
• Review of Moral Theory and Anomaly, by Tom Sorell, Philosophical Books 42 (2001): 225-228.