Alyssa Tudor

Graduate Student

Alyssa is a fifth-year PhD candidate in philosophy whose research focuses primarily on moral philosophy, bioethics, and moral psychology. Her dissertation develops a character-theoretic account of self-forgiveness, drawing on philosophical and psychological research to argue that self-forgiveness plays an important role in cultivating self-knowledge and virtue. In addition to her dissertation, she is currently working on a paper in psychiatric ethics that adapts tools from narrative medicine to help resolve self-illness ambiguity. 

 

Alyssa received Vanderbilt’s Berry Teaching Award in 2024, and the Berry Graduate Student Departmental Service Prize in 2023, 2025, and 2026. She currently serves as a co-chair for Vanderbilt's chapter of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) and as president of the Philosophy Student Government Association (PGSA).

 

 

For inquiries, please reach out via email at alyssa.tudor@vanderbilt.edu