Melissa Merritt | |
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Awards | NAKS Book Prize |
Education | |
Education |
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Thesis | Drawing from the sources of reason: Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Stephen Engstrom |
Philosophical work | |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | University of New South Wales |
Main interests | Kantian philosophy |
Melissa McBay Merritt is an American philosopher and academic who works in Australia as an associate professor at the University of New South Wales. [1] She is known for her works on Kantian philosophy. [2] [3]
Merritt has a 1994 bachelor's degree from Yale University,and completed her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation,Drawing from the sources of reason:Reflective self-knowledge in Kant's first Critique,was directed by Stephen Engstrom. [4] She is a winner of the North American Kant Society Book Prize [5] and the Annette Baier Essay Prize of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. [6]