Research/Areas of Interest
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
- MA, Tufts University, Medford, United States
- BA, Northeastern University, Boston, United States
Biography
Valentina Urbanek has been teaching at Tufts since Fall 2009. She specializes in ethics and political philosophy. Her research develops and defends the need for non-consequentialist alternatives to person-affecting moral theories. She also has interests in the history of philosophy, especially Plato, Descartes, and Hume, distributive justice, democratic theory, philosophy of law, philosophy and literature, and bio-ethics. She served on MIT's Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects from 2007-2009. She was a NSF Ethics Research Fellow for the Nanotechnology & Society Research Group at Northeastern University in the Summer of 2011.