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Encyclopedia > Christine Korsgaard

Chris Marion Korsgaard is a professor at Harvard University. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...


Korsgaard received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard. She has taught at the University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Yale. She joined Harvard in 1991. She has also served as a visiting lecturer at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA. A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... The University of Illinois is the set of three public universities in Illinois. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, University of California, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...


Korsgaard teaches moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. The term philosophy derives from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom. ...


In 1996, Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity (ISBN 052155960X), which was the revised version of her Tanner Lectures on Human values, and also a collection of her past papers: Creating the Kingdom of Ends. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...


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Christine Korsgaard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (147 words)
She has taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago; since 1991 she is a professor at Harvard University.
Korsgaard received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard.
In 1996, Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity,
Harvard Gazette: Korsgaard to initiate thinker's salon (466 words)
Korsgaard plans to use the prize money to initiate a series of seminars starting in 2006 focusing on many of the philosophical topics she has spent her career addressing.
Korsgaard also plans to organize a conference on moral duties to animals, a topic she addressed last year when she delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of Michigan.
Korsgaard developed her interest in moral theory and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant while studying at Harvard as a student of John Rawls, author of the influential book, "A Theory of Justice." Rawls' work offered an alternative to the utilitarian theories of morality and government that had predominated until that time.
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