Karl Ameriks
Karl Ameriks | |
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| Born | 1947 |
| Alma mater | Yale University (A.B.) |
| Awards | American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Kantian philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
| Thesis | Cartesianism and Wittgenstein: The Legacy of Subjectivism in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karsten Harries |
Karl P. Ameriks (born 1947)[1] is an American philosopher. He is the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Education and career
[edit]Ameriks studied at Yale University, A.B., summa cum laude (1969), Ph.D. (1973), where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Karsten Harries. He joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 1973, and taught there for more than forty years.
He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and has written widely in the history of late modern and Continental philosophy. Ameriks co-edits the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]- Kant's Theory of Mind: An Analysis of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982; expanded ed., 2000)
- Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000)
- Interpreting Kant’s Critiques (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003)
- Kant and the Historical Turn: Philosophy as Critical Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)
- Kant's Elliptical Path (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012)
- Kantian Subjects: Critical Philosophy and Late Modernity (Oxford, 2019)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Watkins, Eric (2015). "Ameriks, Karl". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Third ed.). New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-1-139-05750-9. OCLC 927145544.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
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