Complete Writings with Web Access Information Where Available
Books
- Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, Oxford, 2018.
- Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity. Oxford, 2009
- 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.)
- The Normativity of Instrumental Reason
- The Myth of Egoism
- Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant
- Aristotle’s Function Argument [Abstract]
- Aristotle on Function and Virtue
- From Duty and for the Sake of the Noble: Kant and Aristotle on Morally Good Action
- Acting for a Reason [Abstract]
- Taking the Law into Our Own Hands: Kant on the Right to Revolution
- The General Point of View: Love and Moral Approval in Hume’s Ethics
- 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)
- An Introduction to the Ethical, Political, and Religious Thought of Kant
- Kant’s Analysis of Obligation: The Argument of Groundwork I
- Kant’s Formula of Universal Law
- Kant’s Formula of Humanity
- The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil
- Morality as Freedom
- Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Personal Relations
- Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value
- Two Distinctions in Goodness
- The Reasons We Can Share: An Attack on the Distinction between Agent-Relative and Agent-Neutral Reasons
- Skepticism about Practical Reason
- Two Arguments Against Lying
- Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit
Recent Philosophical Essays and Work in Progress: See Previous Page
Responses
Shorter Pieces on Animals
| Amicus Brief in Case of Happy the Elephant | State Appeals Court of New York, on Behalf of the Non-Human Rights Project |
| 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 Status | 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 | Think: Philosophy for Everyone 2012 |
| Personhood, Animals, and the Law | The Point: December 23, 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. |
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
| =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 by Richard Marshall for 3: am Magazine | |
| 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 |
Blog Posts
| 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: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/01/treated-like-animals-guest-post-by-christine-korsgaard/ | The Uehiro Center Practical Ethics Blog, January 5, 2015 |