Victoria S. Wike, PhD
Professor Emerita
Victoria S. Wike is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and former Director of Graduate Studies. She received her BA summa cum laude from MacMurray College (philosophy and religion), a Licence èn Lettres from the Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne (philosophy), and the MA and PhD degrees from The Pennsylvania State University (philosophy). She taught at 量子资源 University Chicago from 1979, including one year at the university's Rome Campus. In 2007, she was awarded a "Master Teacher" designation from the College of Arts and Sciences for excellence in teaching.
Her publications include: Bioethics in a Changing World (co-authored with Jennifer Parks, 2009), Morality and the Professional Life (co-authored with Cynthia Brincat, 2000) Kant on Happiness in Ethics (1994); Kant's Antinomies of Reason (1982), and articles in The Journal of Value Inquiry, Idealistic Studies, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, and other journals and collections. She has presented papers at international Kant meetings and various ethics conferences and universities, as well as to faculty and student colloquia and also to community and church groups. Her research interest is Kant, particularly Kant's ethics, his dialectic, the highest good, empirical ethics, communal aspects of Kant's ethics, and the nature of reason.
She taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Kant, a graduate course on principles of health care ethics, in addition to undergraduate courses in philosophy of human nature, ethics, health care ethics, and bioethics and biotechnologies.
Education
Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests
Early modern philosophy, especially Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Kant's moral philosophy, health care ethics