John Richardson (philosopher)
John Richardson (* 1951 ) is an American philosopher currently teaching at New York University .
Richardson earned a BA in Philosophy from Harvard in 1972 , a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1974, and his Ph.D. in 1981. Graduated from Berkeley , where he was a student of Hubert Dreyfus . His areas of work are continental philosophers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, in particular Immanuel Kant , Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger , as well as the ancient world , especially Aristotle . In more recent studies he occupied himself with the teleological conceptions of the aforementioned theorists and relationships between the philosophy of biology and the theory of evolution .
Works
- Existential epistemology; A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Project ; Oxford, 1986
- Nietzsche's system ; Oxford, 1996
- Nietzsche's New Darwinism ; Oxford, 2004.
- Co-edited by: Nietzsche ; 2001 (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)
Web links
- Literature by and about John Richardson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richardson's website
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| SURNAME | Richardson, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |