Michael Neil Forster

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Michael Neil Forster (born December 9, 1957 ) is an American philosopher.

Forster attended the Lancaster Royal Grammar School in England from 1969 to 1977. He studied from 1977 in Oxford (Magdalen College, bachelor's degree 1980) and from 1980 at Princeton University , where he received his master's degree in philosophy in 1983 and received his doctorate in 1987 with a dissertation on Hegel's interpretation of skepticism. He also studied at Heidelberg University in 1984/85. In 1985 he became an assistant professor at the University of Chicago , where he became an associate professor in 1990 and a professor in 1994. From 1994 to 2000 he headed the philosophy department. In 2008 he became a Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor . In 2013 he took up a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Bonn . He is at the chair for theoretical philosophy and co-director of the International Center for Philosophy.

He deals with the philosophy of German idealism (especially Hegel and Kant ) and ancient philosophy, hermeneutics ( Herder , Schleiermacher , Schlegel , Dilthey , Gadamer ), epistemology (especially skepticism ) and philosophy of language , where he particularly bridges the gap between the romantic philosophy of Herder and modern analytical philosophy of language in the Anglo-Saxon area.

In addition to the US, he has British and Irish citizenship.

Fonts (selection)

  • Herder's Philosophy , Oxford University Press, 2018
  • German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond , Oxford University Press 2011
  • After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition , Oxford University Press, 2010
  • Kant and Skepticism , Princeton University Press, 2008
  • Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar , Princeton University Press, 2004
  • Herder: Philosophical Writings , Cambridge University Press, 2002
  • Hegel's Idea of ​​a Phenomenology of Spirit , University of Chicago Press, 1998
  • Hegel and Skepticism , Harvard University Press, 1989

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personal data
SURNAME Forster, Michael Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1957