Tara Smith

Tara A. Smith (nacida en 1961) es una filósofa estadounidense. Es Profesora de Filosofía, la Cátedra para el Estudio de Objetivismo de BB&T , y miembro de la Fundación para el Estudio de Objetivismo en la Universidad de Texas en Austin.

Carrera 
Smith se especializa en teoría moral y política. Hizo sus estudios universitarios en la Universidad de Virginia y recibió su doctorado de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Sus trabajos publicados incluyen los libros Valores viables: un estudio de la vida como la raíz y la recompensa de la moralidad (2000), Derechos morales y libertad política (1995) y Ética normativa de Ayn Rand: El virtuoso egoista (2006). También es colaboradora de varias colecciones de ensayos sobre las novelas de Ayn Rand. Smith ha escrito en revistas como The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Social Philosophy and Policy, y Law and Philosophy.

Smith ha dado conferencias por todo Estados Unidos, incluyendo la Universidad de Harvard, la Wheeling Jesuit University, la Universidad de Duke, la Universidad de Pittsburgh, y la Universidad de Nueva York, y a grupos de hombres de negocios. También ha organizado conferencias, a menudo enfatizando el tema de la ley objetiva.

Está en la junta directiva de The philosopher's Index y está en el Consejo Consultivo Académico del Instituto La Clemson para el Estudio del Capitalismo en la Universidad de Clemson. Smith es miembro de la Sociedad Ayn Rand, que existe en el seno de la American Philosophical Association. Ella también está en la junta de directores del Ayn Rand Institute.

Publicaciones seleccionadas

Libros 
 

Cite bookTitleMoral Rights and Political FreedomPublisherRowman & LittlefieldYear of publication1997ISBN0-8476-8026-6Location of publicationLanham, Maryland
 

Cite bookTitleViable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of MoralityPublisherRowman & LittlefieldYear of publication2000ISBN0-8476-9760-6Location of publicationLanham, Maryland
 

Cite bookTitleAyn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous EgoistPublisherCambridge University PressYear of publication2006ISBN0-521-86050-4Location of publicationNew York
 

Cite bookTitleJudicial Review in an Objective Legal SystemPublisherCambridge University PressYear of publication2015ISBN1-107-11449-7Location of publicationNew York

Artículos 

 

Cite journalSource dateSeptember 1992TitleOn Deriving Rights to Goods from Rights to FreedomJournalLaw and PhilosophyVolume11Issue3Pages217–234DOI10.1007/BF01000643
 

Cite journalSource dateDecember 1992TitleWhy a Teleological Defense of Rights Needn't Yield Welfare RightsJournalJournal of Social PhilosophyVolume23Issue3Pages35–50DOI10.1111/j.1467-9833.1992.tb00131.x
 

Cite journalSource dateSeptember 1995TitleRights Conflicts: The Undoing of RightsJournalJournal of Social PhilosophyVolume26Issue2Pages139–156DOI10.1111/j.1467-9833.1995.tb00078.x
 

Cite journalSource dateApril 1997TitleTolerance & Forgiveness: Virtues or Vices?JournalJournal of Applied PhilosophyVolume14Issue1Pages31–41DOI10.1111/1468-5930.00037
 

Cite journalSource dateSeptember 1997TitleReconsidering Zero-Sum Value: It's How You Play the GameJournalJournal of Social PhilosophyVolume28Issue2Pages128–139DOI10.1111/j.1467-9833.1997.tb00381.x
 

Cite journalSource dateSeptember 1998TitleRights, Wrongs, and Aristotelian Egoism: Illuminating the Rights/Care DichotomyJournalJournal of Social PhilosophyVolume29Issue2Pages5–14DOI10.1111/j.1467-9833.1998.tb00104.x
 

Cite journalSource dateDecember 1998TitleIntrinsic Value: Look-Say EthicsJournalThe Journal of Value InquiryVolume32Issue4Pages539–553DOI10.1023/A:1004333128077
 

Cite journalSource dateDecember 1998TitleThe Practice of PrideJournalSocial Philosophy and PolicyVolume15Issue1Pages71–90DOI10.1017/S0265052500003071
 

Cite journalSource dateDecember 2003TitleThe Metaphysical Case for HonestyJournalThe Journal of Value InquiryVolume37Issue4Pages517–531DOI10.1023/B:INQU.0000019033.95049.1e
 "'Social' Objectivity and the Objectivity of Value" in 

Cite bookTitleScience, Values,
and ObjectivityPublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh PressYear of publication2004ISBN0-8229-4237-2Editor last nameMachamerEditor first namePeter K.Location of publicationPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaLast name of second editorWoltersFirst name of second editorGereonLast author ampersandyCite bookTitleScience, Values, and ObjectivityPublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh PressYear of publication2004ISBN0-8229-4237-2Editor last nameMachamerEditor first namePeter K.Location of publicationPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaLast name of second editorWoltersFirst name of second editorGereonLast author ampersandy
 

Cite journalYear of publication2004TitleMorality Without the Wink: A Defense of Moral PerfectionJournalJournal of Philosophical ResearchVolume29Pages315–331DOI10.5840/jpr_2004_6
 "Forbidding Life to Those Still Living" in 

Cite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Ran
d's We the LivingPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2004ISBN0-7391-0697-XEditor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, MarylandCite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Rand's We the LivingPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2004ISBN0-7391-0697-XEditor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, MarylandCite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Rand's We the LivingPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2004ISBN0-7391-0697-XEditor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, Maryland
 "Independence in The Fountainhead" in 

Cite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Ran
d's The FountainheadPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2006ISBN0-7391-1577-4Editor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, MarylandCite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Rand's The FountainheadPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2006ISBN0-7391-1577-4Editor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, Maryland
 

Cite journalYear of publication2007TitleWhy Originalism Won't Die – Common Mistakes in Competing Theories of Judicial InterpretationJournalDuke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public PolicyVolume2Pages159–215
 

Cite journalYear of publication2008TitleThe Importance of the Subject in Objective Morality: Distinguishing Objective from Intrinsic ValueJournalSocial Philosophy and PolicyVolume25Pages126–148DOI10.1017/S0265052508080059
 "'Humanity's Darkest Evil': The Lethal Destructiveness of Non-Objective Law" in 

Cite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Ran
d's Atlas ShruggedPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2009ISBN978-0-7391-2779-7Editor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, MarylandCite bookTitleEssays on Ayn Rand's Atlas ShruggedPublisherLexington BooksYear of publication2009ISBN978-0-7391-2779-7Editor last nameMayhewEditor first nameRobertLocation of publicationLanham, Maryland

Referencias

Enlaces externos 
 Faculty page at University of Texas at Austin Department of Philosophy
 Academic review of Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist 
 The Objective Standard's review of Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist
 Carrie-Ann Biondi, Review of "Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist" Reason Papers 30 (2008)
 Page at the Ayn Rand Institute which lists her books and some articles
 Archive of Tara Smith's articles at the Capitalism Magazine website

Nacidos en 1961
Filósofos de Estados Unidos del siglo XX
Filósofos de Estados Unidos del siglo XXI
Ateos de Estados Unidos
Filósofas de Estados Unidos
Alumnado de la Universidad Johns Hopkins
Profesores de la Universidad de Texas en Austin
Alumnado de la Universidad de Virginia
Objetivismo