Terry Pinkard

Terry P. Pinkard (born 1947) is an American philosopher and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University. His research and teaching focus on the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to the present.^[1] In addition to his own thought, Pinkard is a "noted Hegel scholar" whose translation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is "accomplished" and "admirably clear."^[2]

Terry Pinkard
Born	1947 (age 77–78)
Academic background
Education	University of Texas at Austin (BA, MA) Stony Brook University (PhD)
Thesis	The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Patrick A. Heelan, Don Ihde
Other advisors	Klaus Hartmann
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	Continental philosophy, Hegelianism, Postanalytic philosophy
Institutions	Georgetown University
Main interests	History of philosophy, philosophy of politics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, modernity

Education and career

Pinkard earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University with the dissertation, The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl.^[3][4] He taught at Georgetown University from 1975 to 2000, at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005, but returned to Georgetown in 2005.^[1]

Selected publications

• Pinkard, Terry (2023). Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-766312-7.
• Pinkard, Terry (2022). Practice, Power, and Forms of Life. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-81324-0.
• Pinkard, Terry (2017). Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674978782. ISBN 978-0-674-97878-2.^[5][6][7]
• Pinkard, Terry (2012). Hegel's NaturalismMind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-986079-1.

• Pinkard, Terry (2002). German Philosophy 1760–1860. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511801846. ISBN 978-0-521-66381-6.
• Pinkard, Terry (1994). Hegel's Phenomenology. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316036433. ISBN 978-0-521-56834-0.

Translations

• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich (2018). Pinkard, Terry; Baur, Michael (eds.). Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit. doi:10.1017/9781139050494. ISBN 978-1-139-05049-4.