Tara A Smith

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Biography

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.