Sebastian Rand | |
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Born | Sebastian Gerard Rand |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (MA) Northwestern University (PhD) |
Thesis | From a priori Grounding to Conceptual Transformation: The Philosophy of Nature in German Idealism (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Terry Pinkard (Chair) |
Other advisors | John McCumber, Jacques Derrida, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Catherine Malabou |
Academic work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School or tradition | German Idealism |
Institutions | Georgia State University |
SebastianGerard Rand is a professor of philosophy at Georgia State University. [1]
Rand holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University,earned in 2006. Prior to that,they completed an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1997 and received a B.A. in the College of Letters from Wesleyan University in 1995. [2]
In his article "What's Wrong with Rex? Hegel on Animal Defect and Individuality" Rand argues that for Hegel,animals can not be normatively evaluated on the basis of species-specific standards. This position has been criticized by Nicolás García Mills,whom along with Mark Alznauer argues that animals are in fact normatively evaluable for Hegel. [3] [4]
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