Jennifer Whiting

Jennifer Whiting (Ph.D., Cornell University) taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1986-97 and rejoined the department in 2015. She has also taught at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Toronto (where she was Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy). She has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Cornell's Society for Humanities; the recipient of ACLS and Howard Foundation fellowships, as well as several NEH grants (including one, with Steve Engstrom, for the conference that resulted in their co-edited volume Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics, Rethinking Happiness and Duty; and one, with Rutgers psychologist Louis Sass, to run a summer institute on Mind, Self, and Psychopathology); and winner of the Humboldt Stiftung's Konrad Adenauer Prize. 

Though her teaching interests range widely--including, at times, philosophy of literature and feminist philosophy--she has published primarily in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) and contemporary moral psychology. Three volumes of her papers are forthcoming with Oxford University Press (USA): [1] First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity (Oxford); [2] Thinking and Acting Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics; and [3] Body and Soul: Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism.