Neera Kapur Badhwar (Ph.D., Toronto), Associate Professor: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Moral Psychology



My main project is a book for Oxford University Press on virtue and happiness, with the working title, Happiness as the Highest Good (abstract). Since human evil is a major threat to happiness, I am also interested in the question of how to avoid evil and how to respond to it. Other research interests include International Ethics (on which I have directed two interdisciplinary conferences and published one paper), and the role of markets in promoting civic friendship and civility.


  • Vita
  • Honors Section of Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2006
  • Seminar: Understanding Evil, Fall 2006
  • nbad@ou.edu

    On-line papers

  • Is Realism Really Bad for You? A Realistic Response (forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy)
  • Friendship and Commercial Societies (revised September 2007; forthcoming in Politics, Philosophy & Economics)




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