Michael N. Forster
American philosopher (born 1957)
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Michael Neil Forster (born December 9, 1957) is a British-American philosopher and the Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he has taught since 2013. He is an expert on 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, especially Herder and Hegel.[1]
December 9, 1957
Princeton University (PhD)
Michael N. Forster | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael Neil Forster December 9, 1957 |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Oxford (BA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Hegel and Skepticism (1987) |
| Raymond Geuss | |
Other advisors | John M. Cooper Michael Frede Tim Scanlon Ralph Walker |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Continental philosophy | |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of Bonn |
Notable students | Rachel Zuckert |
Main interests | Philosophy of language Hermeneutics |
Education and career
Forster earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1987, where he worked with Raymond Geuss and Michael Frede.[2] He became Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago, rising to the rank of Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor before moving to Bonn. He remains a visiting professor at Chicago.[3]
Books
- Herder's Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- German Philosophy of Language from Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- After Herder (Oxford University Press, 2010)
- Kant and Skepticism (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (Princeton University Press, 2004)
- Herder: Philosophical Writings (Ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Hegel's Idea of a "Phenomenology of Spirit" (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
- Hegel and Skepticism (Harvard University Press, 1989)
