Susan Wolf

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Susan Wolf is a moral philosopher. One of her books is Freedom Within Reason, which argues for a view of free will as the ability to do what one reasonably thinks is the right thing. This allows a deterministic universe to nevertheless contain responsibility and the feeling of autonomy for us. Wolf has also written on the topic of moral luck, suggesting a reconciliation between the rationalist and irrationalist positions. She has also published influential work on the demandingness of morality. In this area her paper "Moral Saints" has been particularly influential.

Wolf taught at Harvard University, the University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University before taking up her current position as professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her husband, [Douglas MacLean], is also a philosopher at UNC.

External links

http://philosophy.unc.edu/wolf.html

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