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Karl Ameriks
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Karl P. Ameriks (November 5, 1947 – April 28, 2025) was an American philosopher. He was the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
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Life and career
[edit]Ameriks was born on November 5, 1947.[1] He 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 was 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-edited 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]
Ameriks died on April 28, 2025, at the age of 77.[3]
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)
- Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties (Oxford, 2024)
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 May 5, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- ^ Karl Peter Ameriks Obituary In legacy.com
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