Colin Heydt
Colin Heydt | |
|---|---|
| Awards | NEH Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship |
| Education | |
| Education | Boston University (PhD, 2003), Swarthmore College (BA, 1994) |
| Thesis | The Ethics of Character: John Stuart Mill on Aesthetic Education (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Knud Haakonssen |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of South Florida |
| Main interests | Moral philosophy, eighteenth-century philosophy, ethics, history of philosophy |
Colin Heydt is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida.[1] His research focuses on eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy, particularly the ethical and cultural thought of David Hume and Adam Smith.[2]
Heydt is the author of Rethinking Mill’s Ethics (2006)[3] and Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth‑Century Britain (2018),[4][5] as well as the editor of John Mill Stuart's Utilitarianism (2010). Rethinking Mill’s Ethics (2006) has been described as “a rich and original contextual study of John Stuart Mill’s political philosophy, ethics and moral psychology.”[6] Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth‑Century Britain (2018) has been called “an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding” of British moral philosophy in the eighteenth century.[7]
Books
- Heydt, Colin (2006). Rethinking Mill's Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education. Continuum Books. ISBN 0826486398.
- Heydt, Colin (2018). Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-42109-6.
- Mill, John Stuart (2010). Heydt, Colin (ed.). Utiliarianism. Broadview Press. ISBN 978-1-551-11501-6.
References
- ^ "Colin Heydt". University of South Florida. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ^ "Colin Heydt – Faculty Profile". University of South Florida. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ^ West, Henry R. (2007-04-10). "Rethinking Mill's Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on 2025-08-23. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ Harris, James A. (2018). "Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other by Colin Heydt". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 56 (4): 759–760. doi:10.1353/hph.2018.0085. ISSN 1538-4586.
- ^ Stuart-Buttle, Tim (March 2019). "Colin Heydt, Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other". Journal of Scottish Philosophy. 17 (1): 79–86. doi:10.3366/jsp.2019.0225. ISSN 1479-6651.
- ^ Haakonssen, Knud. "Review of Rethinking Mill's Ethics". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- ^ Stuart-Buttle, Tim. "Review: Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain". Fishpond. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
External links
- "Colin Heydt". University of South Florida. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
- "PhilPeople profile: Colin Heydt". PhilPeople. Retrieved 31 October 2025.