Prof.Christine Korsgaard
(Harvard University. USA.)
Professor Christine Korsgaard received
her B.A. from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. from Harvard. She
taught at Yale, the University of California, and the University of Chicago
before taking up her present position at Harvard. In recent years, Prof.
Korsgaard has taught courses on Kant's Ethical Theory, Kant's Political
and Religious Thought, Hume's Ethical Theory, the History of Modern Moral
Philosophy, and Political Philosophy. Her areas of concentration are in
moral philosophy and its history, especially in the connection between
ethics and practical reason.
Publications:
I. Books
The Sources of Normativity, Cambridge University Press, 1996
Creating the Kingdom of Ends, Cambridge University Press, 1996
II. Essays
* Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth
Century Moral Philosophy
The Journal of Philosophical Research.Forthcoming.
* The General Point of View: Love and Moral
Approval in Hume's Ethics
Hume Studies.Volume XXV, Nos. 1&2,
April/November, 1999.
* The Myth of Egoism. Available from the University of Kansas as the Lindley Lecture for 1999.
* Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant in The Journal of Ethics 3: 1-29, 1999.
* The Normativity of Instrumental Reason in Ethics and Practical Reason,edited by Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut. Oxford University Press, 1997.
* Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant
on the Right to Revolution
in Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays
for John Rawls, edited by Andrews Reath, Barbara Herman, and Christine
M. Korsgaard. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
* From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally Good Action in Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty,edited by Stephen Engstrom and Jennifer Whiting.Cambridge University Press,1996.(Click on the title for more information about this book from Cambridge University press.)
* Aristotle on Function and Virtue in History of Philosophy Quarterly,Volume 3, Number 3 (July 1986): 259-279.
III. Other Publications and Writings
* The Dependence of Value on Humanity
commentary on Joseph Raz's Tanner Lectures
The Practice of Value forthcoming from the University of California Press.
* An Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard by Herlinde Pauer-Studer. A German version of this interview was published in Herlinde Pauer-Studer, Konstruktionen praktischer Vernunft. Moralphilosophie im Gesprach. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000, pp. 35-66. The original interview was an oral interview, transcribed and then revised and edited by the participants in English. This English version was supposed to have appeared in Constructions of Practical Reason, Stanford University Press, 2003, but through an unfortunate accident Stanford printed the raw oral transcript of the interview instead. The correct version is available here: "An Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard."
* Moral Philosophy as the Century Turns for the Library of Congress Bicentennial conference Frontiers of the Mind in the Twenty-First Century proceedings supposedly forthcoming (The Library of Congress has not found a publisher for these proceedings).
* Motivation, Metaphysics, and the Value of the Self: A Reply to Ginsborg, Guyer, and Schneewind in a symposium on Creating the Kingdom of Ends,Ethics109 (October, 1998): 49-66. (Click for the Ethics home page.)
* A Reply to Carol Voeller and Rachel Cohon Unpublished; written for an "Author Meets Critics" session on The Sources of Normativityfor the Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association in May 1998.
* Introduction to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals For the edition translated and edited by Mary Gregor in the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
*An Index to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals While preparing the Index for the volume above, I prepared a parallel index to the Academy edition pages of the Groundwork. Click here to access it.
* Rawls and Kant: On the Primacy of the Practical in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress,Memphis 1995, edited by Hoke Robinson. Marquette University Press, 1995.
* A Note on the Value of Gender-Identification in Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities,edited by Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover. Oxford University Press, 1995. (Click the title for more information about this book from Oxford University Press.)
* Commentary on Amartya Sen's "Capability and Well-Being" and Gerald Cohen's "Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods, and Capabilities" in The Quality of Life,edited by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Oxford University Press, 1993. (Click the title for more information about this book from Oxford University Press.)
* The Standpoint of Practical Reason (Dissertation, 1981) Published in Garland's Distinguished Harvard Dissertations series, 1990.
IV. Encyclopedia Articles
V. Co-Editor
Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls edited by Andrews Reath, Barbara Herman, and Christine M. Korsgaard. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
VI. The Locke Lectures, 2002
In May and June of 2002 Prof. Korsgaard
gave the Locke Lectures at Oxford under the title Self-Constitution: Action,
Identity, and Integrity. One day of the seminar would be dedicated to the
discussion of them.
This information has been obtained
from Prof. Korsgaard personal web page, for more information look in: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~korsgaar/