Dr. Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A distinguished moral philosopher and philosopher of action, Dr. Wolf taught philosophy at Johns Hopkins University from 1986 to 2002, eventually becoming chair of the department. Much of Dr. Wolf’s work explores freedom, morality, happiness, meaningfulness, and love--essentially, the topics that have been at the core of philosophy for thousands of years. Dr. Wolf became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, received a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities in 2002, and was elected into the American Philosophical Society in 2006. She is also a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park. Dr. Wolf is the author of Freedom Within Reason (1990), Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (2010), and most recently, The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning & Love (2015).