Paul Guyer

I work on the history of modern philosophy, especially Kant, and on the history of aesthetics. I have worked on Kant's epistemology and metaphysics, his moral and political theory, and on his aesthetics, and on issues in both epistemology and aesthetics in a wide range of other authors. I am also one of the General Co-Editors of the Cambridge Edition of Kant, for which I have translated several volumes of Kant's works. My recent works include the first English translation of an extensive selection of Kant's posthumous Notes and Fragments (2005), a survey of Kant, called simple Kant (2006), a Reader's Guide to Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2007), and three collections of my essays, Kant's System of Nature and Freedom (2005), Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics (2005), and Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume (2008). I am currently working on a history of modern aesthetics from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, tentatively entitled Truth and Play. Beyond that, I am planning to write a book on the impact of Kant's moral philosophy on the subsequent history of philosophy.

In addition to teaching all areas of Kant on a regular rotation, I teach a rotation of courses on eighteenth-, nineteenth-. and twentieth-century aesthetics.  I also teach eighteenth-century British moral philosophy.