Michael Neil Forster | |
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| Born | December 9, 1957 |
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| Education | Princeton University (PhD), Oxford University (BA) |
| Thesis | Hegel and Skepticism (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Raymond Geuss |
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental |
| Institutions | University of Chicago,Bonn University |
| Doctoral students | Rachel Zuckert |
| Main interests | philosophy of language,hermeneutics |
| Website | https://www.philosophie.uni-bonn.de/institut/personen/institutslehrstuehle/prof-dr-michael-forster |
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]
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]
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