Jennifer A. Herdt is an American philosopher and Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at

Yale Divinity School Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Congregationalist theological education was the motivation at the founding of Yale, and the professional school has ...

. She is known for her works on

moral philosophy Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns ma ...

Books

*''Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition'' (Chicago, 2019) *''Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices'' (Chicago, 2008) *''Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy'' (Cambridge, 1997)

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20th-century American philosophers American philosophy academics 21st-century American philosophers Yale Divinity School faculty Christian ethicists Princeton University alumni East Tennessee State University faculty Oberlin College alumni Hume scholars 1967 births Living people {{US-philosopher-stub