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Virtue Talk podcast: “Early learning about food is really learning about people” – Katherine Kinzler

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:59:22 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Cornell University Katherine Kinzler discuss her work in child food preferences (with collaborators Zoe Liberman, University of California, Santa Barbara; and at the University of Chicago, Samantha Fan, Amanda Woodward, Boaz Keysar); and how working with scholars in our project across the fields of psychology, philosophy, and theology has impacted her approach to thinking about her research.

Next week on The Virtue Blog, we’ll post related writing by Kinzler.

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Katherine Kinzler (left) with Candace Vogler at our June 2016 working group meeting.

Katherine Kinzler is Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Scholar with the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life. Read more here.

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Virtue Talk podcast: “Universal human virtues” – Tahera Qutbuddin

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:43:33 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and Professor of Arabic Literature Tahera Qutbuddin discuss her research and recent books A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of ‘Ali, and Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and how her research is impacted by working within our project.

The text of these remarks will be available on our next blog post.

Tahera Qutbuddin | Virtue Talk

Tahera Qutbuddin is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago and Scholar with the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life. Read more here.

Tahera Qutbuddin with Fr. Thomas Joseph White at our June 2016 Working Group Meeting.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: “Moral character of particular acts” – Fr. Kevin Flannery

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:44:20 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and philosopher Fr. Kevin Flannery discuss his research in action theory, how we analyze whether an act is good or not within its context, and how his research is impacted by working within our project.

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Rev. Kevin Flannery , S.J., is Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy, Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and Scholar with Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life. Read more here.

Fr. Kevin Flannery (center) at our June 2016 Working Group Meeting.

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“To Change the World Through Thought” – Virtue Talk Podcast: Philosopher Matthias Haase

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:45:19 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and philosopher Matthias Haase discuss his research in philosophy of action, and the unexpected benefits of doing research with theologians and psychologists.

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Matthias Haase is Lecturer at the University of Leipzig, and in January 2016, will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Read more here.

Matthias Haase at our June 2016 Working Group Meeting. Photo by Valerie Wallace.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: Philosopher Talbot Brewer

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 08:21:33 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and philosopher Talbot Brewer discuss his research in looking at agency within ethical theory, and how his research is impacted by working within our project.

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Talbot Brewer is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Read more here.

Tal Brewer with Philosopher and Principal Director Candace Vogler and Psychologist and fellow Scholar Heather C. Lench at our June 2016 Working Group Meeting.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: Michael Gorman on Listening to Others and Finding Meaning

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:45:20 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and philosopher Michael Gorman discuss his research in human fulfillment, and how his thinking about scholarship and research has been impacted in surprising ways by our collaborative project.

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Micahel Gorman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Read more about him and other other scholars here.

Michael Gorman discussing meaning as PI Jennifer A. Frey listens, at our June 2016 working group meeting.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: Psychologist Heather C. Lench on Emotions

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:26:37 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and psychologist Heather C. Lench discuss her research in how our emotions impact our thoughts about our futures and daily events, and how the conversations she’s having at our working group meetings have given her new ideas about emotions.

Heather C Lench | Virtue Talk

Heather C. Lench is Associate Professor and Department Head of Psychology at Texas A & M University. Read more here.

Heather C. Lench with fellow scholar Marc Berman at the December 2015 working group meeting of the scholars of Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: Philosopher Nancy Snow on virtue, ethics, and human flourishing

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Fri, 27 May 2016 18:30:48 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar and philosopher Nancy Snow discuss her current and far-ranging research, initiatives, and the impact of working with psychologists and theologians in our project is having in ways she considers the idea of virtue, ethics, and moral education, and human flourishing.

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Nancy Snow at the December 2015 working group meeting of the scholars of Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life.

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Nancy Snow at the December 2015 working group meeting of the scholars of Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life.

Nancy Snow is Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at University of Oklahoma. Read more here.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: Father Thomas Joseph White on Virtue

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:04:22 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar Fr. Thomas Joseph White discuss his research, and the impact working with psychologists and philosophers in our project is already having in ways he considers the idea of virtue.

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Father Thomas Joseph White (right) at the scholar Working Group Meeting in December 2015 (pictured L-R with Reinhard Huetter and Paul Wong).

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Father Thomas Joseph White (right) at the scholar Working Group Meeting in December 2015 (pictured L-R with Reinhard Huetter and Paul Wong).

Fr.Thomas Joseph White is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies. Read more here.

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Virtue Talk Podcast: Reinhard Huetter on Happiness

virtue.uchicago.edu (Valerie Wallace) — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 17:05:34 +0000

Click the link below to hear our scholar Reinhard Huetter discuss his theological research and the impact working with psychologists and philosophers in our project is already having in ways he considers the idea of happiness.

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Reinhard Huetter (center) at the Virtue Scholars’ December 2015 Working Group Meeting.

Reinhardt Huetter is Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University Divinity School where he teaches dogmatic, philosophical, and moral theology ad mentem S. Thomae. He is presently the Paluch Chair in Theology at the University of Saint Mary on the Lake/Mundelein Seminary of the Archdiocese of Chicago (2015-16). He is co-editor of the English edition of Nova et Vetera: The International Theological Journal. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (2012). Read more here.

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