Christine Korsgaard


















Christine M. Korsgaard (born 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Americanphilosopher whose main academic 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.Korsgaard received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard. She was a pupil of John Rawls.In 1996, Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity,(1) 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.(2) In 2002, she gave the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford.(3)

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1. New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55059-9.



2. New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-49644-6.



3. Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity.

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