Resident Scholar
Baylor University
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Robert C. Roberts Vitae
Roberts received his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974, and has taught at Western Kentucky University (1973–1984) and Wheaton College (1984–2000). Roberts has had research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pew Charitable Trusts, and is currently a Senior Fellow in the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, in the inquiry into Religious Experience and Moral Identity.
Areas of Interest
Ethics (especially virtues), Kierkegaard, Emotion Theory, Moral Psychology, Epistemology
Current Projects
Emotions and Virtues: An Essay in Moral Psychology
Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology, with Jay Wood (forthcoming Oxford University Press, January 2007)
Spiritual Emotions: Reflections in Christian Ethics (forthcoming, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company)
Recent Publications
Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology Cambridge University Press
“The Virtue of Hope in Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses in Robert B. Perkins (Ed.), International Kierkegaard Commentary: Eighteeen Upbuilding Discourses (Macon: Mercer University Press), (2003) 181-203.
“Humility and Epistemic Goods” (with W. Jay Wood) in Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski (Eds.), Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press),(2003) 257-279.
“Proper Function, Emotion, and Virtues of the Intellect” (with Jay Wood) in Faith and Philosophy 21 (2004): 3-24
