Béatrice Longuenesse is Silver Professor, Professor of Philosophy Emerita at New York University and, since 2011, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), the University of Paris-Sorbonne (where she received her Doctorat de Troisième Cycle (PhD) in 1981 and her Doctorat d’Etat in 1992), and Princeton University. She taught at Paris-Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), the University of Besançon and the University of Clermont-Ferrand before joining the philosophy department at Princeton University in 1993, where she became Full Professor in 1996. She left Princeton for NYU in 2004. She retired and Silver Professor became emerita at NYU in 2020. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (2006-7), the American Academy in Berlin (2012-13), and the National Humanities Center (2014-15).

Her books include Kant and the Capacity to Judge (Princeton University Press, 1998); Kant on the Human Standpoint (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Hegel’s Critique of  Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2007); I, Me, Mine. Back to Kant, and Back again (Oxford University Press, 2017); and The First Person in Cognition and  Morality (Oxford University Press, 2019). She co-edited with Daniel Garber Kant and the Early Moderns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and edited Le Moi/the Self/le Soi (a special issue of the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 2010-4). She is working on a book (under contract with Oxford University Press) under the title: The Organization of the  Mind. Lessons from Kant and Freud.  

Her work spans the history of philosophy, especially Kant and nineteenth-century German philosophy; the philosophy of language and mind; and philosophical issues related to  Freudian psychoanalysis. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The  Philosophical Review, Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Journal of Philosophy, Kantian Review, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Revue de métaphysique et de morale.