Jennifer Herdt

Jennifer A. Herdt
Education
EducationPrinceton University (MA, PhD), Oberlin College (BA)
ThesisFatal divisions: Hume on religion, sympathy, and the peace of society (1994)
Doctoral advisorJeffrey Stout
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsYale Divinity School
Main interestsmoral philosophy

Jennifer A. Herdt is an American philosopher and Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Yale Divinity School.[1] She is known for her works on moral philosophy.[2][3]

Books

  • Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition (Chicago, 2019) ISBN 9780226836904
  • Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (Chicago, 2008) ISBN 9780226327242
  • Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy (Cambridge, 1997, 2008) ISBN 9780521073080

References

  1. ^ "Jennifer A. Herdt". Yale Divinity School.
  2. ^ Stoll, Timothy (2020). "Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  3. ^ Howard, Thomas Albert (May 2021). "Jennifer A. Herdt, Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), pp. 329. $40.00". Scottish Journal of Theology. 74 (2): 188–189. doi:10.1017/S0036930620000605. ISSN 0036-9306. S2CID 236574640.