R. Lanier Anderson (philosopher)

R. Lanier Anderson is an American philosopher and J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is an expert on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, and has published widely on both Kant and Nietzsche.^[1][2]

R. Lanier Anderson
Awards	Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching
Education
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A., 1987), University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ph.D., 1993)
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College
Main interests	Kant, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Du Bois

Education and career

Anderson earned his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Yale University summa cum laude, with an exceptional distinction in the philosophy major. Anderson earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in philosophy in 1993, and has been teaching at Stanford since 1996.^[3] Anderson has previously been a professor at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College.

Anderson is the Executive Director of North American Nietzsche Society.

Books

• The Poverty of Conceptual Truth: Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics, OUP, 2015