# Christine Korsgaard
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Christine Marion Korsgaard, (; born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University whose 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.
== Education and career ==
Korsgaard first attended Eastern Illinois University for two years and transferred to receive a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard, where she was a student of John Rawls. She was awarded an honorary LHD Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois in 2004.
The Incomparable Value of the Individual
Talk given by Professor Christine Korsgaard at the Moral Sciences Club on October 21st 2025.
#45 - Prof. Ian Morris : The Hidden Driver of Civilization: Energy & Human Values
We're joined by Ian Morris, British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian’s central argument is both simple and radical: our beliefs about fairness, justice, hierarchy, equality, and even democracy are not timeless moral truths floating above history. They…
Ep. 371: Christine Korsgaard on Normativity (Part Two)
Concluding our treatment of The Sources of Normativity. We give Korsgaard's tweaks to Kant, including her distinction between the categorical imperative and the moral law. We then explain her reference to Wittgenstein's private language argument in her argument that reason-giving, and hence moralit…
Ep. 371: Christine Korsgaard on Normativity (Part One)
On lectures 3 and 4 of The Sources of Normativity (1996), where we get Korsgaard's positive view on how morality becomes obligatory for an individual, which has to do with identity, reason-giving, and our fundamentally social nature. And yet, her view is an interpretation of Kant! Get more at parti…
Ep. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part Two)
We dive further into the text of lectures 1 and 2 of The Sources of Normativity (1996). We give Korsgaard's account of the idea of reflective endorsement through Hume and Bernard Williams to get to her own view. When you come to know the origins of your moral sentiments, do you still stand behind t…
Ep. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part One)
On The Sources of Normativity (1996), lectures 1 and 2. How are facts related to obligations? We don't want to merely explain our moral impulses, but justify them. Korsgaard walks us through the views of Hobbes, Hume, Bernard Williams and others to arrive at her own breed of Kantianism, which we'll…
A Reasonable Structure for Animal Rights - Christine Korsgaard
In this talk, Professor Christine Korsgaard discusses the nature of rights, especially from a Kantian perspective and within the context of non-human animals. This was the Guelph Lecture in Philosophy given by Professor Christine M. Korsgaard at the University of Guelph back in 2014. Uploaded 25-04…
Animal Selves and the Good - Christine Korsgaard (2016)
A common defense of the various and sometimes cruel ways in which human beings use the other animals is that human beings are just more important than the other animals are: what happens to human beings matters more. In this lecture, Christine Korsgaard begins by arguing that the trouble with this …
Animal Testing
Episode 50 - Animal Testing
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the rapid dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the legal and political shifts sweeping the EU and the United States—including the surprising federal momentum under the current HHS framework. From the util…
#45 - Prof. Ian Morris : The Hidden Driver of Civilization: Energy & Human Values
We're joined by Ian Morris, British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian’s central argument is both simple and radical: our beliefs about fairness, justice, hierarchy, equality, and even democracy are not timeless moral truths floating above history. They…
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