J. B. Schneewind
Jerome B. Schneewind is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.Life
He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. and[Ph.D. from [Princeton University. Schneewind taught at the University of Chicago, Princeton, Yale University, the University of Pittsburgh and Hunter College CUNY where he was also Provost before coming to Hopkins as chair of the philosophy department in 1981. He has also taught at Leicester, Stanford, and Helsinki. He taught courses on the history of ethics, types of ethical theory, the British empiricists, Kant's ethics, and utopian thought.
He has held Mellon, Guggenheim, and NEH fellowships and spent 1992-1993 as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. He is a past president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Board of Officers from July 1999 to June 2002.Works
Schneewind has edited several books, among them:
- Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996
- Kant's Lectures on Ethics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001,
- Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003,
His own writings include, in addition to many articles, four books:
