Paul Guyer

Who is Paul Guyer?

Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Brown University since 2012, is a scholar of Immanuel Kant. Guyer was for many years a Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served on the Graduate Groups for both Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. Prior to moving to the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Michigan.

Guyer has written nine books on Kant and Kantian themes, and has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. In addition to his work on Kant, Guyer has published on many other figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Hume, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and others. Guyer's Kant and The Claims of Knowledge is widely considered to be one of the most significant works in Kant scholarship. Recent works by Guyer include Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, and The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.