Christine Korsgaard - Wikipedia Christine Korsgaard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Christine Marion Korsgaard Born April 9, 1952 (1952-04-09) (age 68) Chicago, Illinois, United States Alma mater Harvard University University of Illinois Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic Institutions Harvard University Main interests Moral philosophy · Kantianism Influences Immanuel Kant, John Rawls, Anscombe, Aristotle Influenced Austin Dacey, Derek Parfit, Sharon Street Christine Marion Korsgaard, FBA (/ˈkɔːrzɡɑːrd/; born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University 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. Contents 1 Education and career 2 Animal rights 3 Selected publications 3.1 Books 3.2 Articles 4 See also 5 Notes 6 External links Education and career[edit] 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 was awarded an honorary LHD Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois in 2004.[1] She is a 1970 alumna of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill. Korsgaard in 2019 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. 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,[2] which turned into her recent book, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001[3] and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.[4] She served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008-2009, and held a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award from 2006-2009.[5] Animal rights[edit] Korsgaard is an advocate of animal rights. She was a vegetarian for over 40 years and is now a vegan.[6] In 2018, Korsgaard authored Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to Other Animals which argues that Kantian ethics supports animal rights.[7] Selected publications[edit] Books[edit] (2018) Fellow Creatures: Our obligations to other animals, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198753858. (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[edit] (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.) See also[edit] American philosophy List of American philosophers Notes[edit] ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-01-05. Retrieved 2015-06-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2014-12-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/05.24/07-academy.html ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2015-07-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ "Index". www.people.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-16. ^ "Book presents the case that animals are just as important as people". Phys.org. Retrieved October 8, 2020. ^ Nobis, Nathan (2019). "Review: Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to Other Animals". The Philosophers' Magazine. 87: 113–114. doi:10.5840/tpm201987100. External links[edit] Korsgaard's Web Page - at Harvard University. 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