Kenneth R. Westphal#


Kenneth R. Westphal
Membership Number:5388
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Elected:2020
Main Country of Residence:ITALY
Homepage(s):https://ae-eu.academia.edu/KennethWestphal
ORCID:0000-0001-6039-760X




Present and Previous Positions
  • 2021 Professor Emeritus
  • 2014 - 2021 Professor of Philosophy, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul
  • 2013 - 2014 Visiting Professor, Lehrstuhl für Philosophiegeschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  • 2007 - 2010 Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent, Canterbury
  • 2005 - 2006 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
  • 2004 - 2005 Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
  • 2000 - 2003 Professor of Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich
  • 1994 - 2000 Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham
  • 1988 - 1994 Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham
  • 1996 - 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Fields of Scholarship
  • Realism & Anti-Realism; pragmatic realism
  • Epistemology + History & Philosophy of Science
  • Justificatory Reasoning in Non-Formal Domains
  • American Pragmatism, especially C.I. Lewis, W. Sellars, F.L. Will
  • Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Social, Political & Legal Philosophy
  • Carnap: semantics
  • Kant
  • Hegel
  • Sextus Empiricus / Pyrrhonian scepticism
  • 17th - 18th-century philosophy, esp. Descartes & Hume

Honours and Awards
  • The George Armstrong Kelly Prize, awarded by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought in 1994 for ‘Kant on the State, Law, and Obedience to Authority in the Alleged “Anti-Revolutionary” Writings’ (1992a; reprinted 2006d); notice: Journal of the History of Philosophy 33.3 (1995): 541.

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