Office: WAG 231
Office Hours: TTH 10:45-11:45
Phone: 471-6777
tarasmithtx@mail.utexas.edu
Education: BA University of Virginia, MA, PhD Johns Hopkins

Research interests:
Professor Smith’s main interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Recent work has focused on the foundations of value and the content of virtues. She is currently investigating proper methodology in judicial interpretation. Smith is author of Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics – The Virtuous Egoist (2006), Viable Values – A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality (2000), and Moral Rights and Political Freedom (1995) as well as a number of articles in such venues as The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Law and Philosophy, and Social Philosophy and Policy. She currently holds the Anthem Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism and serves on the Editorial Board of The Philosophers Index.

Courses taught:
Ethics, political philosophy

Field(s) of Study: Ethics and Philosophy of Law