Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin who has specialized in moral and political theory. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Virginia and received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. The philosopher Socrates about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is a doctoral/research university located in Austin, Texas. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...

Her published works include the books Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality, Moral Rights and Political Freedom, and most recently Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist published by Cambridge University Press. Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher,[1] best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and the novella Anthem. ... The headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge. ...

Smith is affiliated with the Ayn Rand Institute. The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism (ARI) was established in 1985, three years after Ayn Rands death, by Leonard Peikoff, Rands legal and intellectual heir. ...

External links

• Faculty page at University of Texas at Austin Department of Philosophy
• Academic review of Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist
• The Objective Standard's review of Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist

• Page at the Ayn Rand Institute