Julian Young

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Julian Padraic Young
Born (1943-06-19) June 19, 1943 (age 80)
Alma mater University of Pittsburgh
AwardsThe Association of American Publishers 2010 PROSE Award for Philosophy
Era 20th century German philosophy
19th century German philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental philosophy
Institutions University of Auckland
Wake Forest University
Main interests
meaning of life, philosophy of art, post-Kantian philosophy

Julian Padraic Young (born June 19, 1943) is an American philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy. [1]

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Career

He specializes in Continental (nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French) philosophy, philosophy of art, environmental philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Prior to moving to the United States, Professor Young taught at all levels at the universities of Auckland, Pittsburgh, Calgary and Tasmania, the following: Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge, Introduction to Theories of Human Nature, British Empiricism, Quine and Sellars, Wittgenstein, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus. He has supervised and examined numerous MA and PhD theses at Auckland and throughout Australasia. He is the author of ten books, mostly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy. He has appeared on radio and television in Ireland, New Zealand and the US, and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and Harper's Magazine. [2]

Accusations of Plagiarism

In 2011, Mark Anderson, a professor at Belmont University, discovered that a significant number of passages in Young's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2010) were plagiarized from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate. [3] In addition to "large-scale structural similarities", [4] Anderson provides more than ten examples of Young's unethical academic practice. A group of scholars led by Mohan Matthen (Professor of Philosophy and senior Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Perception at the University of Toronto) suggested that Young admit publicly that the Nietzsche book "contains a number of passages that are copied from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate". Young's response was reported by Professor Matthen: "Julian Young has now inserted into unsold copies of his book a list of Errata an acknowledgement of Cate's biography and a list of changes to his text. We applaud his honourable gesture". [5]

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References

  1. Horton, Scott (15 September 2010). "Reconsidering Nietzsche: Six Questions for Julian Young". The Stream - Harper's Magazine Blog . Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. "Interview with Julian Young". Figure/Ground. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  3. Anderson, Mark. "Telling the Same Story of Nietzsche's Life." Journal of Nietzsche Studies, The 42.1 (2011): 105-120.
  4. Anderson, "Telling the Same Story", p. 114
  5. What Julian Young Must Do, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science