Jennifer Whiting is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Toronto (where she was Chancellor Jackman Professor of Philosophy). She has been a fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Cornell's Society for Humanities and has received fellowships from the ACLS, Howard Foundation, and NEH. In 2006, she received the Royal Society of Canada's Konrad Adenauer Research Award.
Other essays by Whiting are collected in First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity (OUP 2016) and in Living Together: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (OUP 2023)