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.
| Guyer, Paul. "The Twofold Morality of Recht: Once More Unto the Breach." Kant-Studien, vol. 107, no. 1, 2016. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Frederick C. Beiser, The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism: 1796–1880 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 Pp. xiii + 610 ISBN 9780198722205 (hbk) £75.00." Kantian Review, vol. 20, no. 03, 2015, pp. 483-492. |
| Guyer, P. "Kant's Elliptical Path, by Karl Ameriks." Mind, vol. 122, no. 488, 2013, pp. 1053-1061. |
| Guyer, P. "Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing." Philosophical Review, vol. 121, no. 2, 2012, pp. 285-290. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Schopenhauer, Kant and Compassion." Kantian Review, vol. 17, no. 03, 2012, pp. 403-429. |
| GUYER, PAUL. "Stellenindex und Konkordanz zum Naturrecht Feyerabend, Teilband I: Einleitung des Naturrechts Feyerabend." Ratio Juris, vol. 25, no. 1, 2012, pp. 110-116. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Hobbes Is of the Opposite Opinion” Kant and Hobbes on the Three Authorities in the State." Hobbes Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2012, pp. 91-119. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Genius and Taste: A Response to Joseph Cannon, ‘The Moral Value of Artistic Beauty in Kant’." Kantian Review, vol. 16, no. 01, 2011, pp. 127-134. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Gerard and Kant: Influence and Opposition." J Scottish Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 1, 2011, pp. 59-93. |
| GUYER, PAUL. "Kant and the Philosophy of Architecture." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 69, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7-19. |
| Guyer, Paul. "THE OBLIGATION TO BE VIRTUOUS: KANT'S CONCEPTION OF THE TUGENDVERPFLICHTUNG." Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 27, no. 02, 2010, pp. 206-232. |
| Guyer, P. "Kant and Skepticism." Philosophical Review, vol. 118, no. 3, 2009, pp. 384-389. |
| GUYER, PAUL. "KANT, SCIENCE, AND HUMAN NATURE." Philosophical Books, vol. 50, no. 1, 2009, pp. 15-28. |
| GUYER, PAUL. "The Harmony of the Faculties in Recent Books on the Critique of the Power of Judgment." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 67, no. 2, 2009, pp. 201-221. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Back to Truth: Knowledge and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Schopenhauer." European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 2, 2008, pp. 164-178. |
| Guyer, P. "Humean Critics, Imaginative Fluency, and Emotional Responsiveness: A Follow-Up to Stephanie Ross." The British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 48, no. 4, 2008, pp. 445-456. |
| Guyer, Paul. "The psychology of Kant’s aesthetics." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 39, no. 4, 2008, pp. 483-494. |
| GUYER, PAUL. "WHAT HAPPENED TO KANT IN NEO-KANTIAN AESTHETICS? COHEN, COHN, AND DILTHEY 1." Philosophical Forum, vol. 39, no. 2, 2008, pp. 143-176. |
| Wood, Allen, Guyer, Paul, Allison, Henry E. "Debating Allison on Transcendental Idealism." Kantian Review, vol. 12, no. 02, 2007, pp. 1-39. |
| GUYER, PAUL. "Free Play and True Well-Being: Herder's Critique of Kant's Aesthetics." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 65, no. 4, 2007, pp. 353-368. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Naturalistic and Transcendental Moments in Kant's Moral Philosophy." Inquiry, vol. 50, no. 5, 2007, pp. 444-464. |
| Guyer, P. "Kant's Philosophies of Judgement." The British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 46, no. 1, 2006, pp. 99-102. |
| Guyer, Paul. "L’idéal de la beauté et la nécessité de la grâce." Revue germanique internationale, no. 4, 2006, pp. 161-173. |
| Guyer, P. "Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars; Kant's Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars' Cassirer Lecture Notes and Other Essays." Philosophical Review, vol. 114, no. 4, 2005, pp. 535-539. |
| guyer, paul. "KANT ON REPRESENTATION AND OBJECTIVITY." Philosophical Books, vol. 46, no. 2, 2005, pp. 113-117. |
| Guyer, Paul. "Beauty, Systematicity, and the Highest Good: Eckart Förster's Kant's Final Synthesis." Inquiry, vol. 46, no. 2, 2003, pp. 195-214. |
| Guyer, Paul. "NATURAL ENDS AND THE END OF NATURE: REPLY TO RICHARD AQUILA." The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 30, no. S1, 1992, pp. 157-165. |
| Guyer, Paul. "THE FAILURE OF THE B-DEDUCTION." The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 25, no. S1, 1987, pp. 67-84. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | PhD | Harvard University |
| 1971 | AM | Harvard University |
| 1969 | AB | Harvard University |
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999-
Foreign Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens, 2024-
Member, American Philosophical Society, 2025-
International Kant Prize, 2024
| HMAN 2400M - Philosophy and Architecture |
| PHIL 0050 - Aesthetics: Art and Morality |
| PHIL 0210 - Early Modern Philosophy |
| PHIL 0993 - Political Philosophy: Historical Issues |
| PHIL 1240 - Kant's Moral Philosophy |
| PHIL 1290 - Kant's Moral Philosophy |
| PHIL 1720 - Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason |
| PHIL 2080J - Kant and Mendelssohn |
| PHIL 2080K - Philosophy and Architecture |
| PHIL 2080L - Idealism in the Twentieth Century |
| PHIL 2207 - Reason and Sentiment in 18th Century Philosophy |
