Christine Korsgaard

Christine Marion Korsgaard
Korsgaard in 2010
BornApril 9, 1952 (1952-04-09) (age 73)
Education
Alma materHarvard University
University of Illinois
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsHarvard University
Main interestsMoral philosophy · Kantianism

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. 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 in normativity in general.