Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Thinking in Good Company” by Christine Korsgaard
Christine Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University, where she taught from 1991 until 2020. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard, she held permanent positions at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago, as well as visiting positions at University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. She received her BA from the University of Illinois, her PhD from Harvard, and honorary degrees from the University of Illinois and Groningen University. She works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, the nature of agency, personal identity, normativity, and the ethical relations between human beings and the other animals. Korsgaard served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association from 2008 to 2009.
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