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. {, border="0" style="margin:auto;" class="toccolours" , - ! {{MediaWiki:Toc , - , style="text-ali ...

. He is the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

Education and career

Ameriks studied at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, A.B.,

summa cum laude Latin honors are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned. The system is primarily used in the United States. It is also used in some Sou ...

(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 Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

and has written widely in the history of late modern and

Continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a term used to describe some philosophers and philosophical traditions that do not fall under the umbrella of analytic philosophy. However, there is no academic consensus on the definition of continental philosophy. Pri ...

. 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 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

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)

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 {{US-philosopher-stub

Education and career

Bibliography

See also

References

External links