Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is scheduled to deliver the annual Frumkes Lecture, speaking on "Moral Obligations and Social Commands" on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in Hemmerdinger and Jurow Lecture Halls, Silver Center. This lecture is free and open to the public. 

Majoring in math and philosophy, Susan Wolf graduated from Yale in 1974. She did her graduate work at Princeton and has taught at Harvard, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins, as well as UNC. She has held visiting appointments at Oxford University, the Australian National University and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association of University Women, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2003 she received the Mellon Foundation’s award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.

She is the author of Freedom Within Reason, (Oxford, 1990), a book on free will and moral responsibility, and has written numerous articles on ethics and the philosophy of mind. These include “Morality and Partiality,” “Two Levels of Pluralism,” “Self-Interest and Interest in Selves,” “Moral Saints,” and “Asymmetrical Freedom.” Her current research focuses on the relations among happiness, morality, and meaningfulness in life.

The lecture is made possible by the generosity of Lewis Burke Frumkes.