Rachel Elizabeth Zuckert (born January 6, 1969) is an American philosopher and professor of

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

at the

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. She is known for her expertise on

Kantian philosophy Kantianism () is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a Germans, German philosopher born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The term ''Kantianism'' or ''Kantian'' is sometimes also used to describe contemporary positions in philosop ...

. Zuckert is a former president of the

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Books

* ''Kant on Beauty and Biology: An Interpretation of the Critique of Judgment'', Cambridge University Press, 2007. * ''Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics'', Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Personal life

Zuckert is one of three daughters born to political philosophers

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and Michael Zuckert.

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External links

Rachel Elizabeth Zuckert at Northwestern UniversityRachel Zuckert - Herder's Naturalism on Vimeo
1969 births 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics University of Chicago alumni Northwestern University faculty Living people Kant scholars American women philosophers Fellows of the National Endowment for the Humanities 21st-century American women {{US-philosopher-stub