Christine M. Korsgaard, (born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American philosopher 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, in the theory of personal relationships and in normativity in general. Korsgaard has been a professor at Harvard University since 1991.

Korsgaard received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard. She was a pupil of John Rawls.

She has taught at the University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Yale University. She joined Harvard in 1991. She has also served as a visiting lecturer at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.

Korsgaard teaches moral philosophy and the history 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 gave the Locke Lectures, at the University of Oxford, on Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity. These lectures are available on Korsgaard's personal page online.

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• Personal page

American philosophers | Living people | 1952 births | Kantian philosophers | Kantianism | Deontological ethics

Christine Korsgaard