Christine Korsgaard

Christine Marion Korsgaard, FBA (/ˈkɔːrzɡɑːrd/; born April

9, 1952) is an American philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Christine Marion
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University whose main Korsgaard
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.

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Animal rights
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Born April 9, 1952 (age 68)
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Chicago, Illinois,
See also United States
Notes Alma mater Harvard University
External links University of Illinois

Era 20th-century

Education and career philosophy

Region Western philosophy
Korsgaard first attended Eastern Illinois University for two years School Analytic
and transferred to receive a B.A. from the University of Illinois Institutions Harvard University
and a Ph.D from Harvard, where she was a student of John
Rawls. She was awarded an honorary LHD Doctor of Humane Main Moral philosophy ·
interests
Letters from the University of Illinois in 2004.[1] She is a 1970 Kantianism
alumna of Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill. Influences
Immanuel Kant, John Rawls,
She has taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa
Barbara, and the University of Chicago; since 1991 she has been a Anscombe, Aristotle
professor at Harvard University, where she is now Arthur Influenced
Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy. Austin Dacey, Derek Parfit, Sharon
In 1996 Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Street
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