Roberts, Robert C.
Resident Scholar
Baylor University
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Robert C. Roberts Vitae
Dr. Robert Roberts received his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974 and has taught at Western Kentucky University (1973-1984) and Wheaton College (1984-2000). During his tenure at Wheaton, Roberts was honored twice by the National Endowment for the Humanities and received a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. He has written or edited eleven books and is currently working on the sequel to his 2003 book on emotions. During his time at Baylor, Roberts has continued his work in virtue ethics and began critical new work in virtue epistemology.
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