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]

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

Books edit

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

References edit

  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.