J. B. Schneewind

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.

Life and career

Jerome Borges Schneewind was born on May 17, 1930, in Mount Vernon, New York.<ref name=":1">Template:Citation</ref>

Schneewind received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1951<ref name=":1" /> and obtained his M.A. (1953) and Ph.D. (1957) from Princeton University.<ref name=":1" />

Schneewind was an Instructor in philosophy at the University of Chicago (1957–1960) and at Princeton University (1960–1961),<ref>"J(erome) B(orges) Schneewind." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2001. Gale In Context: Biography. Accessed 8 Jan. 2024.</ref> and he was a faculty member at Yale University (1961–1963), and the University of Pittsburgh (1964–1975).<ref name=":0" /> At the latter he also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1968–1973).<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He then taught, and served as provost, at Hunter College CUNY (1975–1981).<ref name=":3" />

Schneewind was appointed at Johns Hopkins University's philosophy department in 1981<ref name=":0" /> as professor of philosophy, retiring in 2002.<ref name=":1" /> He was named professor emeritus in 2003.<ref name=":3" />

Schneewind held visiting positions at Leicester, Stanford, and Helsinki.<ref name=":2">Jerome B. Schneewind C.V.</ref> He also held Mellon, Guggenheim,<ref name=":1" /> and NEH fellowships,<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> and spent 1992–1993 as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Schneewind served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (1995–1996)<ref name=":0" /> and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was also Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Board of Officers from 1999 to 2002.<ref name=":0" />

Schneewind died on January 8, 2024, at the age of 93.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Works

Books authored

• Backgrounds of English Victorian Literature, Random House, 1970<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1977<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• The Invention of Autonomy: a history of modern moral philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1998.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2009<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Books edited (a selection)

• Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996
  • Introduction, and Chapter 3: "Philosophical Ideas of Charity"<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

• 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).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>