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Michael N. Forster
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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 Bonn University, where he has taught since 2013. He is an expert on 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, especially Herder and Hegel.[1]
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Education and career
[edit]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 in 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
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ "Michael Neil Forster". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved June 11, 2025.
- ^ https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/philosophy/prod/2022-09/Forster%20CV2022.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Michael Forster | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.uchicago.edu.
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