Jens Timmermann
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Jens Timmermann | |
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| Born | 1 May 1970 |
| Awards | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, German National Scholarship Foundation Fellowship, Junior International Kant Prize |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
| Thesis | Sittengesetz und Freiheit: Untersuchungen zu Immanuel Kants Theorie des freien Willens (1998) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Kantian philosophy |
| Institutions | University of St Andrews |
| Main interests | Kant’s ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law |
Jens Timmermann (born 1 May 1970) is a German philosopher and the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.[1] He is best known for his research on Kant’s ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law.[2][3][4][5]
Jens Timmermann was educated at the University of Göttigen and at Balliol College, Oxford. He completed his PhD, entitled Sittengesetz und Freiheit: Untersuchungen zu Immanuel Kants Theorie des freien Willens, in 1998 under the supervision of Günther Patzig and Konrad Cramer.[6] Prior to his appointment as lecturer at the University of St Andrews in 2000, Timmermann held a Junior Research Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford. In 2015, he was promoted to Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews and in 2023 he was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.[7][8]
Timmermann has translated and edited several of the English language translations of the works of Immanuel Kant. He has also written extensively on Kant in his own writings including in Kant’s Will at the Crossroads, a monograph on Kant’s theory of practical irrationality, and in Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie, a monograph on the Kant–Constant controversy.[9]
