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Neera K. Badhwar

University of Oklahoma/George Mason University
Professor Emerita (U. of Ok)/Affiliate (GMU)
Fairfax, VA
Neera K. Badhwar taught philosophy at the University of Oklahoma for 22 years, and is now affiliated with the Philosophy and Economics departments at George Mason University. She has published articles on ethical theory and moral psychology in *Ethics*, *Journal of Philosophy*, and other philosophy journals. Her book, *Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life*, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. She has also published an article on Ayn Rand (co-authored with Roderick Long) in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, and is the lead author of the Objectivist Studies volume *Is Virtue Only a Means to Happiness?* (available on the Atlas Society website). She has been a Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green St. Univ. (twice), the NEH Visiting Professor at SUNY, Potsdam, and a recipient of various other awards. She plans to blog on the philosophy of liberty, write children's stories, and continue to write philosophy articles.