| Full name | Korsgaard, Christine Marion |
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| Born | 1952 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Main interests | moral philosophy · Kantianism |
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Christine Marion Korsgaard (born 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American philosopher and academic 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. She has taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago; since 1991 she has been a professor at Harvard University, where she is now Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy.
Korsgaard received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Harvard, where she was a student of John Rawls. She also received an LHD Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois in 2004.
In 1996, Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity, which was the revised version of her Tanner Lectures on Human Values, and also a collection of her past papers on Kant's moral philosophy and Kantian approaches to contemporary moral philosophy: Creating the Kingdom of Ends. In 2002, she gave the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford, which turned into her most recent book, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity.
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