Michele Moody-Adams is Hutchinson Professor and Director of Ethics and Public Life, and Professor of Philosophy at Cornell. Since 2005, she has also served as Cornell's Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.
Moody-Adams has published extensively in moral and political philosophy, with numerous articles on normative ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, social justice and the morality of reproductive technologies. She is also the author of a widely cited book on moral relativism and moral objectivity, entitled Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture and Philosophy. Her current projects include a book length exploration of morality and history entitled Arguing With the Past: the Political Morality of Reparation and Recognition, and a volume of her collected philosophical essays.
Moody-Adams earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, along with a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University where she went on to earn the Oxford B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University.
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