Jerome Borges Schneewind (May 17, 1930 – January 8, 2024) was an American scholar of the history of philosophy. Latterly he was a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
J. B. Schneewind | |
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_in_1972.jpg) Schneewind in 1972 | |
| Born | Jerome Borges Schneewind May 17, 1930 Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 8, 2024 (aged 93) |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Levy (div.),[1] Elizabeth Hughes (d. 2021)[2] |
| Children | 3 daughters |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Cornell University B.A. major in philosophy (1961) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University M.A. (1953), Ph.D. (1957) |
| Thesis | The Nature of McTaggart's Theory of Appearance |
| Doctoral advisor | John W. Yolton[3] |
| Other advisors | Max Black |
| Influences | Kant, Richard Rorty[4] |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosopher |
| Sub-discipline | Philosophy; Victorian literature; Victorian morality[5] |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh (1964–1975), Hunter College (1975–1981), Johns Hopkins University (1981–2002) |
Life and career
Jerome Borges Schneewind was born on May 17, 1930, in Mount Vernon, New York.[6]
Schneewind received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1951[6] and obtained his M.A. (1953) and Ph.D. (1957) from Princeton University.[6]
Schneewind was an Instructor in philosophy at the University of Chicago (1957–1960) and at Princeton University (1960–1961),[7] and he was a faculty member at Yale University (1961–1963), and the University of Pittsburgh (1964–1975).[8] At the latter he also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1968–1973).[6][9] He then taught, and served as provost, at Hunter College CUNY (1975–1981).[10]
Schneewind was appointed at Johns Hopkins University's philosophy department in 1981[8] as professor of philosophy, retiring in 2002.[6] He was named professor emeritus in 2003.[10]
Schneewind held visiting positions at Leicester, Stanford, and Helsinki.[11] He also held Mellon, Guggenheim,[6] and NEH fellowships,[10][11] and spent 1992–1993 as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences.[12]
Schneewind served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (1995–1996)[8] and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.[13] He was also Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Board of Officers from 1999 to 2002.[8]
Schneewind died on January 8, 2024, at the age of 93.[8][10]
Works
Books authored
- Backgrounds of English Victorian Literature, Random House, 1970[14]
- Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1977[15]
- The Invention of Autonomy: a history of modern moral philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1998.[16][17]
- Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2009[18][19]
Books edited (a selection)
- Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996
- Introduction, and Chapter 3: "Philosophical Ideas of Charity"[20]
- Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, 2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1990, 1 vol. reprint, 2002.
- Kant's Lectures on Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2001, (in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant series)
*For more complete publication details see; "J. B. Schneewind: Bibliography" (2009).[21]
References
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