Jennifer Whiting
Jennifer Whiting
BA (Franklin and Marshall); MA, PhD (Cornell University)
Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy
Taught previously at Harvard University, University of Pittsburgh, and Cornell University.
Recipient of the Humboldt Foundation's Konrad Adenauer Prize: 2007-08;
Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences 1994-5;
Recipient of ACLS, Howard, and NEH fellowships;
Co-director (with Louis Sass) of NEH Institute on Mind, Self, and Psychopathology, 1998.
Research interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind, both ancient and modern.
Current projects:
Aristotle (for the Blackwell Great Minds Series);
Self and Consciousness from Plato to Locke.
Office
Address: 170 St. George St., 5th Floor, Rm. 512
Tel: 416-978-2750
Fax: 416-978-8703
jen.whiting@utoronto.ca
Selected Publications
Recipient of the Humboldt Foundation's Konrad Adenauer Prize: 2007-08;
Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences 1994-5;
Recipient of ACLS, Howard, and NEH fellowships;
Co-director (with Louis Sass) of NEH Institute on Mind, Self, and Psychopathology, 1998.
Research interests lie at the intersection of metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind, both ancient and modern.
Current projects:
Aristotle (for the Blackwell Great Minds Series);
Self and Consciousness from Plato to Locke.
Office
Address: 170 St. George St., 5th Floor, Rm. 512
Tel: 416-978-2750
Fax: 416-978-8703
jen.whiting@utoronto.ca
Selected Publications
- "The Lockeanism of Aristotle" Antiquorum Philosophia, 2008.
- "Nicomachean Ethics 7.3 on Akratic Ignorance" (with Martin Pickavé) Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2008;
- "The Nicomachean Account of Philia" in The Blackwell Guide to the Nicomachean Ethics, edited by R. Kraut (Blackwell, 2006);
- "Trusting First and Second Selves: Aristotelian Reflections on Virginia Woolf and Annette Baier", in Persons and Passions: Essays in honor of Annette Baier, edited by J. Jenkins, J. Whiting, and C. Williams (Notre Dame, 2005);
- “Locomotive Soul”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2002;
- "Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of ‘What Matters’”, Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, edited by R. Gale (Blackwell, 2002);
- Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (co-edited with S. Engstrom: Cambridge UP, 1996);
- "Impersonal Friends", Monist, 1991;
- "Friends and Future Selves", Philosophical Review, 1986.
