Prof. Sarah Stroud

Vita

Sarah Stroud is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. The mission of the Parr Center for Ethics is to nourish and foster moral reflection and ethical sensitivity on campus and beyond; in service of that mission, the Parr Center offers a range of programs to the campus community and the broader community. Before joining the UNC faculty, Stroud taught at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1993 to 2018.

Research

Stroud’s research, which spans central areas of contemporary moral philosophy, centers on foundational issues in moral psychology and moral theory and on the intersection of such issues with metaethics and the philosophy of action. She has written well-known papers on such topics as partiality, moral demandingness and overridingness, lying, practical irrationality, and the moral implications and significance of personal relationships. She co-edited Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (OUP, 2003) and the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), a nine-volume reference work which was awarded a Dartmouth Medal Honorable Mention by the American Library Association. With her UNC colleague Daniel Muñoz, she is currently writing Ethical Theory: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments for Routledge.