Valentina Urbanek

Contact Info: Department of Philosophy Miner Hall, room 04 Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 617-627-4798 Email Prof. Urbanek Office Hours: Mon & Wed 12:00-1:00pm

Lecturer
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy

Biography

Valentina Urbanek is a native New Englander, educated in Boston at Northeastern, Tufts, then MIT. Her area of specialty is moral philosophy. Her dissertation, which she will defend this fall, is about the role that harm plays in explaining whether an action is morally wrong. She has additional research interests in political philosophy, particularly distributive justice and the importance of equality, bio-ethics, particularly creation ethics, and in philosophy and literature.

Education

Ph.D., MIT, expected Fall 2009
MA, Tufts University
BA, Northeastern University, summa cum laude

Courses Taught

Phil 001: Introduction to Philosophy

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