Complete Writings

Complete Writings with Web Access Information Where Available

Books

1. Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, Oxford, 2018.
2. Self-Constitution:  Agency, Identity, and Integrity. Oxford, 2009
3. The Sources of Normativity. Cambridge, 1996.

Essay Collections

 The Constitution of Agency. Oxford, 2008

(The Links for this book are to abstracts of the essays.)

Introduction

1. The Normativity of Instrumental Reason
2. The Myth of Egoism
3. Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant
4. Aristotle’s Function Argument [Abstract]
5. Aristotle on Function and Virtue
6. From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally Good Action
7. Acting for a Reason [Abstract]
8. Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant on the Right to Revolution
9. The General Point of View: Love and Moral Approval in Hume’s Ethics
10. Realism and Constructivism in Twentieth Century Moral Philosophy

 Creating the Kingdom of Ends. Cambridge, 1996

(The links for this book are to the essays, usually the Dash versions)

1. An Introduction to the Ethical, Political, and Religious Thought of Kant
2. Kant’s Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I
3. Kant’s Formula of Universal Law
4. Kant’s Formula of Humanity
5. The Right to Lie:  Kant on Dealing with Evil
6. Morality as Freedom
7. Creating the Kingdom of Ends:  Reciprocity and Responsibility in Personal Relations
8. Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value
9. Two Distinctions in Goodness
10. The Reasons We Can Share:  An Attack on the Distinction between Agent-Relative and Agent-Neutral Reasons 
11. Skepticism about Practical Reason
12. Two Arguments Against Lying
13. Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency:  A Kantian Response to Parfit

Recent Philosophical Essays and Work in Progress: See Previous Page

           
Responses

Valuing Animals, Nature, and Our Own Animal Nature: A Reply to Maclean, Schapiro, and Wallace	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 103, Issue 1, July 2020
Response to Gary Watson and Hilary Bok	Author Meets Critic session on Fellow Creatures, Eastern APA, 2020
Natural Goodness, Rightness, and the Intersubjectivity of Reason:  A Reply to Arroyo, Cummiskey, Molan, and Bird-Pollan.	Metaphilosophy, 2011
Motivation, Metaphysics, and the Value of the Self: A Reply to Ginsborg, Guyer, and Schneewind.	Ethics,1998
Response to Carol Voeller and Rachel Cohon	Book Session on The Sources of Normativity, Central APA, 1998.

Shorter Pieces on Animals

Amicus Brief in Case of Happy the Elephant Biology and Medicine Version	State Appeals Court of New York, on Behalf of the Non-Human Rights Project Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 66, No. 1, Winter 2023.
Should We Use the Other Animals as Means to Our Ends? In German: Should We Use the Other Animals as Means to Our Ends?	For Die Zeit, 2021
Of the Value of People and Animals	The Philosopher, Vol. 108, No. 1, 2020
Medical Research on Animals and the Question of Moral Standing	Harvard Medical School Bioethics Journal, Winter, 2020
Animals: Ethics, Agency, Culture: Introduction	Introduction to a special issue on Animal Ethics of the Harvard Review of Philosophy, XXV, 2018
Getting Animals in View	The Point: Volume 12, No. 34, December 23, 2013
Personhood, Animals, and the Law	Think: Philosophy for Everyone 2012
Exploiting Animals: A Philosophical Protest	AV Magazine, 2009
Facing the Animal You See in the Mirror	Harvard Review of Philosophy, 200
Just Like All the Other Animals of the Earth	Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 2008

Published Commentaries

Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self.	on Ian Morris’s Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve. Princeton, 2015.
Self-Constitution and Irony	on Jonathan Lear’s Irony and Identity. Harvard, 2011
Autonomy and the Second Person Within	on Steve Darwall’s The Second-Person Standpoint, Ethics, 2007
The Dependence of Value on Humanity	on Joseph Raz’s’s The Practice of ValueOxford, 2003
Morality and the Logic of Caring	on Harry Frankfurt’s’s Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting it RightStanford, 2006
Morality and the Distinctness of Human Action	on Frans De Waal’s Primates and Philosophers, 2007
Commentary on Amartya Sen’s ‘Capability and Well-Being’ and Gerald Cohen’s ‘Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods, and Capabilities	in The Quality of Life, Oxford, 1993.
Unpublished Comments
On Richard Pettigrew’s Draft Locke Lecture: Treating Points of View, on Duties to the Self	Northeastern University, 2025
On Barbara Herman’s The Moral Habitat	Pacific APA, 2022
On A. John Simmons’ “Political Legitimacy”	Moral Leadership Conference, Harvard, 2005
“Normativity, Necessity, and the Synthetic a priori”: A comment on Derek Parfit	for a conference at Rutgers (which was never held), 2003
On John Noonan’s “The Measurement of Morals”	Frontiers of the Mind in the Twenty-First Century, Conference at the Library of Congress, 1999
On Onora O’Neill’s Tanner Lectures, “Kant on Reason, Morality, and Religion”	Harvard, 1996
On Alasdair MacIntyre’s Tanner Lectures, “Truthfulness”	Princeton, 1994
On Robert Johnson, “Kant’s No-Accident Criterion of Moral Worth”	Eastern APA, 1993
On Harry Frankfurt, “Autonomy, Necessity, and Love”	Chapel Hill Colloquium, 1993
On Thomas Pogge, “On O’Neill on Kant”	Constructions of Reason, Conference at Notre Dame, 1991
On Edward Halper, “Two Problems in Aristotelian Ethics”	Central APA, 1989
On Thomas Hill, Jr. “Justifying to Oneself”	Morality and the Self, Conference at Oberlin, 1987
On Thomas Hill, Jr., “Kant’s Theory of Practical Reason”	Ethics and Its History, Conference at San Diego, 1986
On Terence Irwin, “Aristotle’s Conception of Morality”	Fundamental Topics in Ancient Greek Ethics, Conference at Chicago, 1985
On Richard Eggerman, “Kantian Formalism and Species-Relative Ends”	Eastern APA, 1982, pre-computer
On John Atwell, “Maxims”	Eastern APA, 1982, pre-computer

Miscellaneous Other Publications and Writings

Rationality	Critical Terms for Animal Studies edited by Lori Grue
I watch, therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophical lessons	The Guardian, April 14, 2015 (my entry is pp. 2-3)
Reply to Barbara Fried in the symposium, Beyond Blame.	The Boston Review, July 2013
Does Moral Action Depend on Reasoning?	Templeton Big Questions Essay, 2010
What’s Wrong with Lying?	(an undergraduate-level essay) Philosophical Inquiry: Classic and Contemporary Readings.  Hackett, 2007
Normativity, Necessity, and the Synthetic a priori: A Response to Derek Parfit	Unpublished, for a conference at Rutgers in 2003
John Rawls	A memorial for the Harvard Review of Philosophy, 2003
Introduction to Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.	Cambridge, 1998 and 2012 (The link is to the 1998 version.)
Rawls and Kant:  On the Primacy of the Practical	Proceedings of the 8th International Kant Congress, 1995
A Note on the Value of Gender Identification	in Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities. Oxford, 1995.
Two Kinds of Matter in Aristotle’s Metaphysics	Unpublished
The Standpoint of Practical Reason	Dissertation, 1981. Published in the Garland Distinguished Harvard Dissertation Series, 1990.

Encyclopedia Articles

Theories of the Good	in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Teleological Ethics	in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Conscience in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia	Garland Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Education, 1996
Formalism in Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia	Garland Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Education, 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.

Interviews

Interview with Đorđe Petrović For the Website Elementarium and the magazine Elements, Center for the Promotion of Science in Belgrade. December 4, 2024
The Status of Animals: A Philosophy Bites Interview	A Philosophy Bites Interview, originally recorded in 2014; this version published in Women of Ideas, edited by Suki Finn, Oxford, 2021
A Conversation with Andrea Staiti on The Sources of Normativity	Ethica and Politica, XXIII, 2021, pp.415-420
Interview by Emilian Mihailov on Animal Ethics
Interview with Michal Segal	Dehak Magazine, May, 2019
Interview with Richard Marshall for 3:AM Magazine	3:AM Magazine, June 25, 2012
Christine M. Korsgaard, by Julian Baggini	Interview by Julian Baggini for The Philosopher’s Magazine, 2012
Interview for Sapere Aude	The Wooster Journal of Philosophical Inquiry, 2012
Interview by Katrien Schaubroeck for the Newsletter of the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven, 2009
Ethics at the Intersection of Kant and Aristotle	by Ana Marta González for Anuario Filosofico, 200
Internalism and the Sources of Normativity: An Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard	by Herlinde Pauer-Studer for Constructions of Practical Reason. Stanford, 2002

1. Blog Posts

Mini-Interview on the Philosophy of Action	Philosophy of Action Blog, 2018
Ethics Retrospective: Discussion with Christine Korsgaard and Tamar Schapiro on Themes from Korsgaard’s “Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value.”	Pea Soup, August 4-6, 2015
The Philosophical Necessity of Animal Rights	Prospect Magazine, July 4, 2018
Provisional Rights and the State	Philosop-Her, October 17, 2014
Treated Like Animals	The Uehiro Center Practical Ethics Blog, January 5, 2015

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