Jennifer Whiting

Jennifer Elaine Whiting is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at Harvard University and Cornell University, and was (from 2003 to 2015) Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Whiting earned a B.A. in philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College in 1978, receiving the Williamson Medal. She earned an M.A. in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1984 from Cornell University. She was assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1983 to 1986, then moved to the University of Pittsburgh, where she was granted tenure in 1991. She left for Cornell in 1997, and moved from there to the University of Toronto in 2003. She returned to Pittsburgh in 2015. Whiting has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Cornell's Society for Humanities. She has received fellowships from the ACLS, the Howard Foundation, and the NEH. In 2007, Whiting received the Konrad Adenauer Research Award. In 2014, she was made an Honorary Doctor of Science at Franklin and Marshall. Whiting's publications are divided mainly between work in ancient philosophy and work on contemporary issues at the intersection of ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Her work on personal identity takes concern for one's future selves as a component of psychological continuity. Oxford University Press is publishing three volumes of Whiting's papers.