Jennifer Frey

Fellow

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa

Jennifer Frey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa and Visiting Professor in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.  She specializes in ethics and moral psychology, with particular emphasis on virtue and the natural law tradition.  Her work asks how we find meaning and happiness, drawing on classical thinkers to advance contemporary debates.  She has published numerous academic essays,  co-edited and edited several academic volumes, and is currently working on two book projects. She also hosts  the podcast Sacred and Profane Love, where she discusses literature, virtue, faith, and what it means to live well with her guests. Her essays and reviews have appeared in First Things, The Point, Image Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other publications.

Practical Truth (edited with Christopher Frey), Oxford University Press, 2025.

“Anscombe on Sin.” In Anscombe and the Christian Tradition, edited by Joshua Stuchlik and Marshall Bierson, Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming 2026.

“Sacrifice and Human Flourishing.” In Spiritual Yearning in an Age of Secularization, edited by David McPherson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026.

 “Malick on Martyrdom: A Hidden Life.” In Faith and Film: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe, edited by Micah Watson and Carson Holloway. Lexington Books, 2024.

“On Ersatz Happiness.” In Against Happiness, edited by Owen Flanagan. Columbia University Press, 2023. “Anscombe on the Voluntary Character of Negligence.” In Teleological Structures in Human Life, edited by Christian Kretzmann. Routledge, 2022.

“Possessing Oneself: The Moral Psychology of Temperance.” In Neglected Virtue, edited by Glen Pettigrove and Christine Swanton. Routledge, 2021.

“Revisiting Modern Moral Philosophy.” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 87 (2020): 61–83. “Anscombe on Practical Knowledge and the Good.” Ergo 6, no. 39 (2019): 1121–1148.

“Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism.” In The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics, edited by Tom Angier. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Happiness as the Constitutive Principle of Action in Thomas Aquinas.” Philosophical Explorations 22, no. 2 (2019): 208–21.

“How to be an Ethical Naturalist.” In Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue, edited by John Hacker-Wright. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

“G.E.M. Anscombe on the Analogical Unity of Intention in Perception and Action” (with Christopher Frey). Analytic Philosophy 58, no. 3 (2017): 202–247.