Christine Korsgaard

Christine Marion Korsgaard, FBA (/ˈkɔːrzɡɑːrd/; born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher who is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University.

She was awarded an honorary LHD Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois in 2004.

[2] 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 was the first woman to give the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford,[3] which turned into her 2009 book Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity.

[5] She served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008–2009, and held a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award from 2006–2009.

Korsgaard in 2019