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. His research focuses on eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy, particularly the ethical and cultural thought of David Hume and Adam Smith.

Heydt is the author of Rethinking Mill’s Ethics (2006) and Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth‑Century Britain (2018), and the editor of John Mill Stuart's Utilitarianism (2010). According to a review, Rethinking Mill’s Ethics (2006) examines Mill's political philosophy, ethics, and moral psychology. Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth‑Century Britain (2018) has been described as a significant work in the field.

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.

External links

• "Colin Heydt". University of South Florida. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
• "PhilPeople profile: Colin Heydt". PhilPeople. Retrieved 31 October 2025.