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Animal Rights: Integrity

Korsgaard is a prominent American philosopher known for her work on Kantian ethics and moral philosophy. She has authored several influential books on topics like agency, identity, integrity and our obligations to animals. Korsgaard is an advocate for animal rights and argues in her book Fellow Creatures that Kantian ethics supports extending moral consideration to non-human animals. She has held prestigious positions like President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Korsgaard is a prominent American philosopher known for her work on Kantian ethics and moral philosophy. She has authored several influential books on topics like agency, identity, integrity and our obligations to animals. Korsgaard is an advocate for animal rights and argues in her book Fellow Creatures that Kantian ethics supports extending moral consideration to non-human animals. She has held prestigious positions like President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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her recent book, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and

Integrity.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts &


Sciences in 2001[3] and a Corresponding Fellow of the British
Academy in 2015.[4] She served as President of the Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008-
2009, and held a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award from
Korsgaard in 2019 2006-2009.[5]

Animal rights
Korsgaard is an advocate of animal rights. She was a vegetarian for over 40 years and is now a
vegan.[6] In 2018, Korsgaard authored Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to Other Animals which
argues that Kantian ethics supports animal rights.[7]

Selected publications

Books
(2018) Fellow Creatures: Our obligations to other animals, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-
0198753858.
(2009) Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity, Oxford University Press.
(2008) The Constitution of Agency, Oxford University Press.
(1996a) The Sources of Normativity, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55059-
9.
(1996b) Creating the Kingdom of Ends, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-
49644-6.

Articles
(1986) "Skepticism about Practical Reason," The Journal of Philosophy 83 (1): 5-25. (Reprinted in
as ch.11 in Korsgaard (1996b), pp. 311–334.)
(1997) "The Normativity of Instrumental Reason", ch. 8 in Garrett Cullity & Berys Gaut (eds.)
Ethics and Practical Reason, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 215–54. (Reprinted with Afterword in
Korsgaard (2008), pp. 27–69.)

See also
American philosophy
List of American philosophers

Notes

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