J. B. Schneewind

Jerome Borges Schneewind (May 17, 1930 – January 8, 2024) was an American scholar of the history of philosophy and professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.

Life and career Jerome Borges Schneewind was born on May 17, 1930, in Mount Vernon, New York.

Schneewind received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1951 and he was a faculty member at Yale University (1961–1963), and the University of Pittsburgh (1964–1975). He then taught, and served as provost, at Hunter College CUNY (1975–1981). He also held Mellon, Guggenheim,

Schneewind served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (1995–1996) He was also Chair of the American Philosophical Association's Board of Officers from 1999 to 2002.

Works Books authored

Backgrounds of English Victorian Literature, Random House, 1970 Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1977 The Invention of Autonomy: a history of modern moral philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2009 Books edited (a selection) Giving: Western Ideas of Philanthropy, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1996 Introduction, and Chapter 3: "Philosophical Ideas of Charity" 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).