Moltke S. Gram

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Moltke S. (Stefanus) Gram (born April 23, 1938 in Waterloo , Iowa , USA ; † February 21, 1986 in Iowa City , USA) was an American philosopher and historian of philosophy . He was a member of the American Philosophical Association and made an international appearance with contributions on Immanuel Kant , German idealism , ontology , epistemology and in general philosophy from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Life

Gram was born to Moltke Stefanus and Dorothy (Forman) Gram. He studied, partly as a fellow of the Fulbright Program (1963-64), at the Universities in Kiel (1960), Heidelberg ( Postgraduate , 1964f.) And Bloomington ( BA , 1960). In Bloomington, where he was from 1964 to 1965 instructor was working, he was in 1966 with the study Kant, Ontology and the a priori to the Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1965 to 1969 Gram was Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois) , then until 1975 Associate Professor at the University of Iowa , Iowa City, Iowa and holder of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1970/71). During this time there was an editor's paper on the occasion of the retirement of the Austrian-born scientific theorist Gustav Bergmann , who emigrated at the end of the 1930s , who had great influence around the world , especially in the 1960s and 1970s as the founder of the so-called Iowa School and Iowa Realists . In Iowa City, Gram was finally made a full professor in 1975 . He held this professorship until his untimely death.

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Monographs

  • Kant: Disputed Questions. Quadrangle Books, Chicago 1967.
  • Kant, Ontology and the a Priori. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois 1968.
  • Direct Realism: A Study Of Perception. M. Nijhoff, Boston 1983.

editor

  • The Ontological Turn. Studies in the Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann. University of Iowa Press, Iowa 1974 (with ED Klemke).

Book and magazine articles

  • Spinoza, Substance, and Predication. In: Theoria. Volume 34, No. 3, 1968, pp. 222-244.
  • Transcendental Arguments. In: Noûs. Volume 5, No. 1, 1971, pp. 15-26.
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer (Ed.), "Truth and Historicity". [REVIEW] In: History and Theory. Volume 13, No. 1, 1974, pp. 83-96.
  • Mongrel Categoricals and Category Mistakes. In: Southern Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 12, No. 1, 1974, pp. 35-47.
  • Must We Revist Transcendental Arguments? In: Journal of Philosophy. Volume 72, No. 18, 1975, pp. 624-626.
  • Must We Revisit Transcendental Arguments? In: Philosophical Studies. Volume 31, No. 4, 1977, pp. 624-626.
  • Transcendental Arguments: A Meta-Critique. In: Kant studies. Volume 70, Nos. 1-4, 1979, pp. 508-513.
  • Gadamer on Hegel's Dialectic: A Review Article. In: The Thomist. Volume 43, No. 2, 1979, p. 322.
  • The Crisis of Syntheticity: The Kant-Eberhard Controversy. In: Kant studies. Volume 71, No. 1-4, 1980, pp. 155-180.
  • Things in Themselves: The Historical Lessons. In: Journal of the History of Philosophy. Volume 18, No. 4, 1980, pp. 407-431.
  • Kant's duplication problem. In: Dialectica. Volume 34, No. 1, 1980, pp. 17-59.
  • What Kant Really Did to Idealism. In: Philosophical Topics. Vol. 12, No. 2, 1981, pp. 127-156.
  • Intellectual Intuition: The Continuity Thesis. In: Journal of the History of Ideas. Volume 42, No. 2, 1981, p. 287.
  • What Kant Really Did to Idealism. In: Philosophical Topics. Vol. 12, No. 2, 1981, pp. 127-156.
  • Reference and Essence. In: Review of Metaphysics. Volume 36, No. 2, 1982, pp. 472-475.
  • The Skeptical Attack on Substance: Kantian Answers. In: Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Volume 8, No. 1, 1983, pp. 359-371.
  • What is Existence? In: Review of Metaphysics. Volume 36, No. 4, 1983, pp. 958-960.
  • The Transcendental Turn: The Foundation of Kant's Idealism. In: Philosophical Review. Volume 96, No. 4, 1984, pp. 618-620.
  • The meanings of 'true' and 'truth'. In: Review of Metaphysics. Volume 38, No. 3, 1985, pp. 623-626.
  • The Anatomy of Idealism. In: Review of Metaphysics. Volume 40, No. 1, 1986, pp. 128-130.
  • Representational min. In: International Studies in Philosophy. Volume 19, No. 3, 1987, pp. 63-65.
  • The Structure of Experience. In: International Studies in Philosophy. Volume 19, No. 3, 1987, pp. 106-108.

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personal data
SURNAME Gram, Moltke S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gram, Moltke Stefanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterloo , Iowa, USA
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1986
Place of death Iowa City