Talk:Christine Korsgaard

"He"?
Is there any reason male pronouns are used throughout here? Judging from the name and picture, I'd say this is a woman.

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She has been described as "one of today's leading moral philosophers"[1] because of her work in defense of Kantian views in moral theory, and "the greatest contemporary proponent" of "a distinguished philosophical tradition that conceives of humanity as a task."[2]

[1] https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24047-the-constitution-of-agency-essays-on-practical-reason-and-moral-psychology/

[2] Melissa McBay Merritt, "Motherhood in Ferrante's The Lost Daughter: A Case Study of Irony as Extraordinary Reflection," Philosophy and Literature, vol. 41, no. 1 (April 2017), 184, 186.

This is followed by a scholarly parenthetical whose thickets I don't even wish to begin to penetrate:

(The expression alluding to Kantianism—"a distinguished philosophical tradition that conceives of humanity as a task"&mdash;is, originally, from Jonathan Lear, A Case for Irony [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011], p. 3, and in Merritt's article Korsgaard is enrolled in this tradition.)

"Because of her work" set me off; it's not normal to see specific causal attributions in grand gestures of platitude. I wondered, what kind of source would actually say such a thing? So I go to the source and it's a book review which opens up with the sentence:

This volume collects ten influential papers by Christine M. Korsgaard, one of today's leading moral philosophers.

This hardly represents a considered, consensus view. And it's not linked to a "because" statement as far as I bothered to read.

And now I don't trust the next assertion, and I'm wondering what editorial mindset produced that thicket parenthetical.

This is more than I can resolve in 60 s, so I simply moved it here, and out of the active BLP spotlight, until it is better considered by those in the know. &mdash; MaxEnt 21:38, 12 March 2019 (UTC)