Karl P. Ameriks (born 1947)
is an
American philosopher
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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. He is the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Notre Dame
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Education and career
Ameriks studied at
Yale University
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, A.B.,
summa cum laude
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(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
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and has written widely in the history of
late modern and
Continental philosophy
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. 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
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in 2009.
Bibliography
*''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' ' (Oxford, 2019)
See also
*
American philosophy
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List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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References
External links
University of Notre Dame Faculty Bio
1947 births
Philosophers from Indiana
Yale University alumni
University of Notre Dame faculty
Living people
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kant scholars
Presidents of the American Philosophical Association
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