Christine M. Korsgaard
Forfatter af The Sources of Normativity
Om forfatteren
Christine M. Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, agency, personal identity, and the relations between human beings and the other animals.
Værker af Christine M. Korsgaard
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics) (2018) 63 eksemplarer
Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) (2012) 1 eksemplar
The myth of egoism 1 eksemplar
La creaci?n del reino de los fines 1 eksemplar
Skepticism about Practical Reason 1 eksemplar
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Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1952
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Uddannelse
- Harvard University (Ph.D. ∙ philosophy)
University of Illinois (BA) - Erhverv
- Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
- Relationer
- Rawls, John (teacher)
- Organisationer
- Harvard University
- Kort biografi
- Christine M. Korsgaard received her B.A. from the University of Illinois and her Ph.D. from Harvard, where she studied with John Rawls. She taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago before taking up her present position at Harvard, where she is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy. [adapted from Primates and Philosophers (2006)]
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Report is that Dr. Korsgaard is a vegetarian. She IS the Faculty Advisor to Vegitas, the Harvard Vegetarian Society.
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 10
- Also by
- 2
- Medlemmer
- 512
- Popularitet
- #48,444
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 2
- ISBN
- 33
- Sprog
- 2
- Trædesten
- 1
Korsgaard seeks to answer the "normative question": what justifies the claims that morality makes on us? In addition to addressing how and why moral ideas can have important practical and psychological effects on us, she also attempts to justify granting this kind of importance to morality. Her account is Kantian, with an emphasis on practical identity. The responses from Cohen, Nagel, Guess, and Williams fail to damage her project too much, before she provides a thorough and convincing reply in the final section of the book (the benefit of being the author of the book, I suppose). Nagel's objections seem to me the most convincing of the four, but it is worth reading The Sources of Normativity for anyone who wants to decide for themselves.… (mere)