Christine Korsgaard

Christine Marion Korsgaard

Born	April 9, 1952 (age 64) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alma mater	Harvard University

Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	Harvard University
Main interests	Moral philosophy · Kantianism
Influences Immanuel Kant · John Rawls
Influenced Austin Dacey · Derek Parfit

Christine Marion Korsgaard (born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher and academic whose main scholarly interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; the theory of personal relationships; and in normativity in general. She has taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago; since 1991 she has been a professor at Harvard University, where she is now Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy. She has been described as "one of today's leading moral philosophers"^[1] because of her work in defense of Kantian views in moral theory.

Biography

Korsgaard first attended Eastern Illinois University for two years and transferred to receive a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard, where she was a student of John Rawls. She received an LHD Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois in 2004.^[2] She is a 1970 alumna of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill.

In 1996 Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity, which was the revised version of her Tanner Lectures on Human Values, and also a collection of her past papers on Kant's moral philosophy and Kantian approaches to contemporary moral philosophy: Creating the Kingdom of Ends. In 2002, she was the first woman to give the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford,^[3] which turned into her most recent book, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001^[4] and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.^[5]

Selected publications

Books

(2009) Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity, Oxford University Press.
(2008) The Constitution of Agency, Oxford University Press.
(1996a) The Sources of Normativity, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55059-9.
(1996b) Creating the Kingdom of Ends, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-49644-6.

Articles

(1986) "Skepticism about Practical Reason," The Journal of Philosophy 83 (1): 5-25. (Reprinted in as ch.11 in Korsgaard (1996b), pp. 311–334.)
(1997) "The Normativity of Instrumental Reason", ch. 8 in Garrett Cullity & Berys Gaut (eds.) Ethics and Practical Reason, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 215–54. (Reprinted with Afterword in Korsgaard (2008), pp. 27–69.)

Notes

External links

Korsgaard's Web Page - at Harvard University.
Interview with 3AM Magazine

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