Tara Smith
Carrera
Smith se especializa en teoría moral y política. Hizo sus estudios universitarios en la Universidad de Virginia y recibió su doctorado de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Sus trabajos publicados incluyen los libros Valores viables: un estudio de la vida como la raíz y la recompensa de la moralidad (2000), Derechos morales y libertad política (1995) y Ética normativa de Ayn Rand: El virtuoso egoista (2006). También es colaboradora de varias colecciones de ensayos sobre las novelas de Ayn Rand. Smith ha escrito en revistas como The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Social Philosophy and Policy, y Law and Philosophy.
Smith ha dado conferencias por todo Estados Unidos, incluyendo la Universidad de Harvard, la Wheeling Jesuit University, la Universidad de Duke, la Universidad de Pittsburgh, y la Universidad de Nueva York, y a grupos de hombres de negocios. También ha organizado conferencias, a menudo enfatizando el tema de la ley objetiva.
Está en la junta directiva de The philosopher's Index y está en el Consejo Consultivo Académico del Instituto La Clemson para el Estudio del Capitalismo en la Universidad de Clemson. Smith es miembro de la Sociedad Ayn Rand, que existe en el seno de la American Philosophical Association. Ella también está en la junta de directores del Ayn Rand Institute.
Publicaciones seleccionadas
Libros
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Title
Moral Rights and Political Freedom
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
- Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. ISBN 0-8476-9760-6.
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Title
Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
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Title
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist
Location of publication
New York
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Title
Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System
Location of publication
New York
Artículos
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Source date
September 1992
Title
On Deriving Rights to Goods from Rights to Freedom
Journal
Law and Philosophy
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Title
Why a Teleological Defense of Rights Needn't Yield Welfare Rights
Journal
Journal of Social Philosophy
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9833.1992.tb00131.x
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September 1995
Title
Rights Conflicts: The Undoing of Rights
Journal
Journal of Social Philosophy
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9833.1995.tb00078.x
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Title
Tolerance & Forgiveness: Virtues or Vices?
Journal
Journal of Applied Philosophy
DOI
10.1111/1468-5930.00037
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Source date
September 1997
Title
Reconsidering Zero-Sum Value: It's How You Play the Game
Journal
Journal of Social Philosophy
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9833.1997.tb00381.x
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Source date
September 1998
Title
Rights, Wrongs, and Aristotelian Egoism: Illuminating the Rights/Care Dichotomy
Journal
Journal of Social Philosophy
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9833.1998.tb00104.x
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Title
Intrinsic Value: Look-Say Ethics
Journal
The Journal of Value Inquiry
DOI
10.1023/A:1004333128077
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Title
The Practice of Pride
Journal
Social Philosophy and Policy
DOI
10.1017/S0265052500003071
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Title
The Metaphysical Case for Honesty
Journal
The Journal of Value Inquiry
DOI
10.1023/B:INQU.0000019033.95049.1e
- "'Social' Objectivity and the Objectivity of Value" in Science, Values, and Objectivity. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 0-8229-4237-2.
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Title
Science, Values,
and Objectivity
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Editor first name
Peter K.
Location of publication
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Last name of second editor
Wolters
First name of second editor
Gereon
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Title
Science, Values, and Objectivity
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Editor first name
Peter K.
Location of publication
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Last name of second editor
Wolters
First name of second editor
Gereon
- «Morality Without the Wink: A Defense of Moral Perfection». Journal of Philosophical Research 29: 315-331. 2004. doi:10.5840/jpr_2004_6.
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Title
Morality Without the Wink: A Defense of Moral Perfection
Journal
Journal of Philosophical Research
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Title
Essays on Ayn Ran
d's We the Living
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
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Title
Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
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Title
Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
- "Independence in The Fountainhead" in Mayhew, Robert, ed. (2006). Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-1577-4.
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Title
Essays on Ayn Ran
d's The Fountainhead
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
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Title
Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
- «Why Originalism Won't Die – Common Mistakes in Competing Theories of Judicial Interpretation». Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 2: 159-215. 2007.
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Title
Why Originalism Won't Die – Common Mistakes in Competing Theories of Judicial Interpretation
Journal
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy
- «The Importance of the Subject in Objective Morality: Distinguishing Objective from Intrinsic Value». Social Philosophy and Policy 25: 126-148. 2008. doi:10.1017/S0265052508080059.
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Title
The Importance of the Subject in Objective Morality: Distinguishing Objective from Intrinsic Value
Journal
Social Philosophy and Policy
DOI
10.1017/S0265052508080059
- "'Humanity's Darkest Evil': The Lethal Destructiveness of Non-Objective Law" in Mayhew, Robert, ed. (2009). Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-2779-7.
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Title
Essays on Ayn Ran
d's Atlas Shrugged
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland
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Title
Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
Location of publication
Lanham, Maryland