Christine Marion Korsgaard is an American philosopher, born in 1952, who is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University. Her main 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 normativity in general.
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Defining MomentIn 2002, became the first woman to give the John Locke Lectures at Oxford, later published as Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (2009). 1 Notable PublicationThe Sources of Normativity (1996) 1 Office HeldPresident, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (2008-2009) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Wikipedialead sentence, birth year
Christine Marion Korsgaard (; born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher who is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University.
Education and career section, 1996 publications sentence
a collection of her past papers on Kant's moral philosophy and Kantian approaches to contemporary moral philosophy: Creating the Kingdom of Ends.
Education and career section, 1996 book sentence
In 1996, Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity, which was the revised version of her Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Education and career section, APA presidency sentence
She served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008-2009
Education and career section, John Locke Lectures sentence
In 2002, she was the first woman to give the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford, which turned into her 2009 book Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity.
lead sentence, birth date
Christine Marion Korsgaard (; born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher who is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University.
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