Lecture
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm September 22, 2026
All undergraduate and graduate students are warmly welcome.
Philosophy as a Path to Wisdom: A Conversation with Prof. Jennifer Frey
Join us as Professor Jennifer Frey leads a discussion on how the study of philosophy can help us live a life lead by wisdom.
Professor Frey is currently Director of Classical Liberal Arts and Visiting Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. Prior to her appointment at Virginia, she was the inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa, Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, and Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.
She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. in philosophy and medieval studies (with a classics minor) at Indiana University-Bloomington. In 2015, she was awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, titled “Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life.”
She has published widely on virtue and moral psychology, and she has edited three academic volumes on virtue and human action: Self Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (edited with Candace Vogler, Routledge, 2018); Practical Truth (edited with Christopher Frey, OUP, 2025); and Practical Wisdom (OUP, forthcoming 2025). Her writing has been featured in Breaking Ground, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. She and her husband have six children.
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Jennifer Frey
