Overview

Paul Guyer is Jonathan Nelson Professor emeritus of Humanities and Phlosophy at Brown, where he taught from 2012 to 2023, as well as Florence R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1982 until 2012.  He earned his AB summa cum laude in 1969 and his PhD in 1974 from Harvard University.  His first positions were at the University of Pittsburgh (1973-78) and the University of Illinois-Chicago (1978-82), and he held visiting positions at Michigan, Princeton, and Harvard.  He is the author, editor, or translator of over thirty volumes and three hundred papers on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the history of modern philosophy more broadly, and the history of aesthetics.  He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1999, and has earned many other honors.  For an extensive list of his publications, see PhilPapers.

Brown Affiliations

• Philosophy