Department of Philosophy

Professor
Christine M. Korsgaard
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Studies

Christine M. Korsgaard received her B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1974; her PhD at Harvard in 1981; and an LHD at the University of Illinois in 2004. She has held positions at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago.  She works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, agency, and personal identity.  She is the author of The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge 1996), Creating the Kingdom of Ends, a collection of essays on Kantian ethics (Cambridge, 1996), and one of the editors of Reclaiming the History of Ethics:  Essays for John Rawls (Cambridge 1997).  She is currently working on Self-Constitution:  Agency, Identity, and Integrity, a book about the foundation of morality in the nature of agency, and a collection of recent papers, The Constitution of Agency:  Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology.  In recent years she has taught courses on Kant's Ethical Theory, the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Contemporary Ethical Theory, Practical Reason, and Action.

For more information, see Prof. Korsgaard's own web site.