Howard Williams | |
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| Born | 23 March 1950 |
| Spouse | Jennifer Williams |
| Education | |
| Education | University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Tudor |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy |
| Institutions | Cardiff University |
| Main interests | Kantian philosophy |
| Website | https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/05/11/apa-member-interview-howard-williams/ |
Howard Williams (born 1950) is a Welsh political philosopher and Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University.
He is known for his works on German philosophy,political philosophy,political and international political theory. Most notably,he has written important contributions to the history of political thought of Immanuel Kant,Georg Hegel and Karl Marx.
Howard Williams was appointed Honorary Distinguished Professor at Cardiff University in 2014. He is also Emeritus Professor in Political Theory at the Department of International Politics,Aberystwyth University,and member of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (the Welsh-language national college).
He has been visiting professor,Department of Philosophy,Halle University,Germany,1998–1999;visiting scholar,Dept of Philosophy,Wilfrid Laurier University,Waterloo,Ontario,Canada 1998;Visiting DAAD Fellow,Humboldt University,Berlin,2002;Visiting professor,Krakow University 2006. In 2004 and 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Philosophy,Stanford University. In 2010 he gave the Paton lectures at the Department of Philosophy,St. Andrews University and was a principal guest speaker at the 30th Anniversary conference of the Danish Philosophical Forum. In June 2014 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Oslo contributing to a joint project of the Philosophy and Law Departments on International Courts and International Legal Theory.
He has been commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a book on the Kantian Legacy in Political Philosophy in a series edited by Paul Guyer at Brown University,Rhode Island.
Currently,Howard Williams is editing The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Theory.
He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017. [1]
He is a member of Glamorgan County Cricket Club [2] and is an avid attendee of Cymru's home football games at the Cardiff City Stadium.
