Distinguished Professor of Ethics
Email: Robert_Roberts@Baylor.edu

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). Roberts has had research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Roberts is currently Graduate Program Director.

Education

Wichita State University B.A. 1965
Yale University Ph.D. 1974

Areas of Interest

Ethics (especially virtues), Kierkegaard, Emotion Theory, Moral Psychology, Epistemology

Current Projects

Emotions and Virtues: An Essay in Moral Psychology

Representative Publications

Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology, Cambridge University Press (2003)

Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology, with Jay Wood (Clarendon Press, 2007)

Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007) 

“Will Power and the Virtues" The Philosophical Review (1988)

“What An Emotion Is: A Sketch" The Philosophical Review (1988)

“Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and a Method of 'Virtue Ethics'" in Merold Westphal and Martin Matustik, editors, Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)

“Existence, Emotion and Character: Classical Themes in Kierkegaard" in Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay and Gordan Marino, editors (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

“Emotions and the Canons of Evaluation" in Peter Goldie, editor, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotions, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

“The Sophistication of Non-Human Emotions" in Robert W. Lurz, editor, Philosophy of Animal Minds, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

“Justice as an Emotion Disposition" in a special issue of the Emotion Review in memory of Robert C. Solomon, Jenefer Robinson, editor (forthcoming)