Christine M. Korsgaard
Commentaries, Interviews, Encyclopedia Articles, and Other Writings



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    • Other Publications and Writings

    Personhood, Animals, and the Law
    Written for a Roundtable Discussion on the Animal Law Movement, for which I was asked to discuss the concept of "Personhood."

    A Commentary on Jonathan Lear's Tanner Lectures, Irony and Identity

    Autonomy and the Second Person Within
    A Commentary on Stephen Darwall's The Second-Person Standpoint
    Ethics vol. 118, October, 2007 [ Abstract]

    Facing the Animal You See in the Mirror
    A contribution to a panel on ethics and animals forthcoming in The Harvard Review of Philosophy

    Morality and the Logic of Caring
    A Commentary on Harry Frankfurt's Tanner Lectures in Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting it Right, Stanford University Press, 2007. [Abstract]
    Morality and the Distinctiveness of Human Action
    A Commentary on Frans De Waal's Tanner Lectures in Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, Princeton University Press, 2007. [Abstract]
    The Dependence of Value on Humanity
    A Commentary on Joseph Raz's Tanner Lectures in The Practice of Value, Oxford Press, 2003. [Abstract]

    Ethics at the Intersection of Kant and Aristotle: an Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard
    by Ana Marta Gonzalez. In Anuar io Filosofico, XXXVI/3, 2003. [Abstract]

    Internalism and the Sources of Normativity: An Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard
    by Herlinde Pauer-Studer. in Constructions of Practical Reason: Interviews on Moral and Political Philosophy, edited by Herlinde Pauer-Studer.Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Available here. [Abstract]

    Normativity, Necessity, and the Synthetic a priori: A Response to Derek Parfit
    Unpublished; written for a conference on Derek Parfit at Rutgers in 2003.

    Motivation, Metaphysics, and the Value of the Self: A Reply to Ginsborg, Guyer, and Schneewind
    Ethics vol. 109, October, 1998. [Abstract]

    A Reply to Carol Voeller and Rachel Cohon
    Unpublished; written for an "Author Meets Critics" session on The Sources of Normativityfor the Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association in May 1998.

    Introduction to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
    For the edition translated and edited by Mary Gregor in the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

    An Index to Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
    While preparing the Index for the volume above, I prepared a parallel index to the Academy edition pages of the Groundwork.


    Rawls and Kant: On the Primacy of the Practical
    in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress,Memphis 1995, edited by Hoke Robinson. Marquette University Press, 1995.

    A Note on the Value of Gender-Identification
    in Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities, edited by Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover. Oxford University Press, 1995. Available on the web through Oxford Scholarship Online Here. [Abstract]

    Commentary on Amartya Sen's "Capability and Well-Being"and Gerald Cohen's "Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods, and Capabilities"
    The Quality of Life, edited by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Oxford University Press, 1993. Available on the web through Oxford Scholarship Online Here; go to the bottom of the page.] [Abstract]

    The Standpoint of Practical Reason (Dissertation, 1981)
    Published in Garland's Distinguished Harvard Dissertations series, 1990.




    Encyclopedia Articles



    Theories of the Good in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

    Teleological Ethics in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Routledge Link for Harvard Clients

    Conscience in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia,Garland, 1996.

    Formalism in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia,Garland, 1996.

    Immanuel Kant in The Garland Encyclopedia of Ethics,1992.

    John Rawls in The Garland Encyclopedia of Ethics,1992. Second edition version co-authored with Samuel Freeman

    Richard Price in The Garland Encyclopedia of Ethics,1992.





    Co-Editor

    Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls
    edited by Andrews Reath, Barbara Herman, and Christine M. Korsgaard. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

    A collection of essays offering an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All of the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and we offer this collection in his honor. Includes essays by Marcia L. Homiak, S. A. Lloyd, Jean Hampton, Joshua Cohen, Susan Neiman, Onora O'Neill, Barbara Herman, Andrews Reath, Adrian M. S. Piper, Nancy Sherman, Christine M. Korsgaard, Hannah Ginsborg, Thomas W. Pogge, and Daniel Brudney









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