Philosophy:Colin Heydt

Short description: American philosopher

Colin Heydt
Education	Boston University (PhD, 2003), Swarthmore College (BA, 1994)
Awards	NEH Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of South Florida
Thesis	The Ethics of Character: John Stuart Mill on Aesthetic Education (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Knud Haakonssen
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. His research focuses on eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy, particularly the ethical and cultural thought of David Hume and Adam Smith.

Philosophy

His book Rethinking Mill’s Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education has been described as “a rich and original contextual study of John Stuart Mill’s political philosophy, ethics and moral psychology.”

His later work Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth‑Century Britain: God, Self, and Other has been called “an immensely valuable contribution to our understanding” of British moral philosophy in the eighteenth century.

Books

• Rethinking Mill’s Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education (Continuum, 2006)
• Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
• John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, edited with introduction and appendices (Broadview Press, 2010)

External links

• "Colin Heydt". https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/philosophy/faculty/heyedt.aspx. 
• "PhilPeople profile: Colin Heydt". https://philpeople.org/profiles/colin-heydt.