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Paul Guyer


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Murray Professor
in the Humanities

tel: 215-898-5549
fax: 215-898-5576
office: 421 Logan Hall
email: pguyer (at) phil.upenn.edu


Research Areas:


• Kant
• Modern Philosophy
• Aesthetics

 

     
    Research
    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. In the coming year, I will be publishing the first English translation of an extensive selection of Kant's posthumous notes and fragments, and two collections of my essays, one called Kant's System of Nature and Freedom and the other Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics, as well as completing a survey of Kant's philosophy for a wide readership. My next major project will be a book entitled Imagination and Freedom: A History of Modern Aesthetics, and I will also be writing a commentary on Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
     
     
    Representative Publications
   

Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979)

   

Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (1987)

 

 

Kant and the Experience of Freedom (1993)

    Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness (2000)
    Kant's System of Nature and Freedom (2005)
   

Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics (2005)

     
    Recent and Current Courses
     Aesthetics
     Modern Philosophy
     Kant
     British Philosophy

 


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October 11, 2004

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