Jerome Borges Schneewind

Background

Schneewind, Jerome Borges was born on May 17, 1930 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of Jerome John and Charlotte (Borges) Schneewind.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1951; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1957.

Career

Schneewind taught at the University of Chicago, Princeton, Yale University, the University of Pittsburgh (where he was also for several years Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) and Hunter College City University of New York where he was also Provost before coming to Hopkins as chair of the philosophy department in 1981. He has also taught at Leicester, Stanford, and Helsinki. He taught courses on the history of ethics, types of ethical theory, the British empiricists, Kant"s ethics, and utopian thought.

He has held Mellon, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for Humanities fellowships and spent 1992-1993 as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences.

He served as Chair of the American Philosophical Association"s Board of Officers from July 1999 to June 2002.

Achievements

• Jerome Borges Schneewind has been listed as a noteworthy Philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Backgrounds of English Victorian literature, (Random House studies in language and literature, SLL 26)
  • The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
  • The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy 1st Paperback Edit edition by Schneewind, Jerome B. (1997) Paperback
  • Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant: An Anthology Volume II
  • (The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy ) Author: J. B. Schneewind Jun-2010

Membership

Served with Signal Corps, Army of the United States, 1954-1956. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Philosophical Association (executive committee Eastern division 1964-1967, chairman committee on teaching philosophy 1973-1978, nominating committee 1986-1988, vice president Eastern division 1994-1995, president 1995-1996, chairman board officers, 1999-2002).

Connections

Married Elizabeth G.R. Hughes, February 23, 1963. Children: Sarah, Rachel, Hannah.

Father:

Jerome John Schneewind

Mother:

Charlotte (Borges) Schneewind

Spouse:

Elizabeth G.R. Hughes

child:

Rachel Schneewind

child:

Hannah Schneewind

child:

Sarah Schneewind