Kenneth R. Westphal

Kenneth Robert Westphal (born December 20, 1955 Evanston, Illinois) is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the Academia Europaea.^[1][2] From 2014 to 2021 he was professor of philosophy at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.^[3]

Kenneth R. Westphal
Born	(1955-12-20) December 20, 1955 (age 69) Evanston, Illinois
Academic background
Education	University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA, PhD)
Thesis	Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge (Realism, Perspectivism, Interpretation, Epistemology, Skepticism) (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Donald W. Crawford
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Sub-discipline	Philosophy of religion
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	German Idealism
Institutions	Boğaziçi University Academia Europaea
Website	https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Westphal_Kenneth/

Education

Westphal earned a B.A. in Social Theory from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign in 1977. Following this, he pursued his graduate studies in Philosophy entering University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1978, earning an M.A. in 1981 and a Ph.D. in 1986 with the dissertation "Nietzsche on Truth and Knowledge (Realism, Perspectivism, Interpretation, Epistemology, Skepticism)". During his doctoral studies, Westphal also studied at the Freie Universität Berlin (1983–84) and the Ohio State University (1984–85).^[4][5]

Publications

Monographs

• Westphal, Kenneth R. (2021). Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation & Corroboration: Critical Re-Examination, Elucidation and Corroboration. Helsinki University Press. JSTOR j.ctv1qp9h87.^[6][7][8]
• Westphal, Kenneth R. (2004). Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511584497. ISBN 978-0-521-83373-8.
• Hegel's Epistemological Realism: A Study of the Aim and Method of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Springer. 6 December 2012. ISBN 978-94-009-2342-3.
• Hegel's Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit. Hackett. 2003. ISBN 978-0-87220-646-5.^[9][10]
• Hegel, Hume und die Identität wahrnehmbarer Dinge: Historisch-kritische Analyse zum Kapitel Wahrnehmung in der Phänomenologie von 1807. V. Klostermann. 31 December 1997. ISBN 978-3-465-02970-0.^[11][12][13]
• Westphal, Kenneth R. (1989). Hegel's Epistemological Realism. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2342-3. ISBN 978-94-010-7554-1.^[14]

Editorials

• Westphal, Kenneth R., ed. (2009). The Blackwell Guide to Hegel'sPhenomenology of Spirit. doi:10.1002/9781444306224. ISBN 978-1-4443-0622-4.^[15][16][17]
• Westphal, Kenneth R., ed. (2014). Realism, Science, and Pragmatism. doi:10.4324/9781315779515. ISBN 978-1-317-69970-5.

Articles

• "Hegel, Natural Law & Moral Constructivism". The Owl of Minerva. 48 (1/2): 1–44. 2016-07-01. doi:10.5840/owl201752719.^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

• "Force, Understanding and Ontology". Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. 29 (1–2): 1–29. 2008. doi:10.1017/S0263523200000756.^[23]
• "How Does Kant Prove That We Perceive, and Not Merely Imagine, Physical Objects?". The Review of Metaphysics. 59 (4): 781–806. 2006. ISSN 0034-6632.