Alyssa Tudor

Graduate Student

Alyssa is a current PhD Candidate in Philosophy working primarily in moral philosophy
and bioethics, as well as moral psychology. She is working on a dissertation that
develops a character-theoretic account of self-forgiveness that uses philosophical and
psychological research to argue that self-forgiveness plays an important role in
cultivating self-knowledge and virtue. She is currently working on a paper on the virtue
of loyalty which draws from the work of Josiah Royce and a paper in clinical ethics
which draws from narrative medicine approaches to psychiatric care.
Alyssa was awarded Vanderbilt’s Berry Teaching Award in 2024, and twice has been
awarded the Berry Graduate Student Departmental Service Prize in 2023 and 2025.
She currently serves as a co-chair for Vanderbilt's chapter of Minorities and Philosophy
(MAP) and as the vice president of the Philosophy Student Government Association
(PGSA).

 

 

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