Robert J. Richards
Robert J. Richards | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 83–84) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Nebraska–Lincoln St. Louis University |
| Known for | History of Darwinian evolution |
| Spouse | Barbara |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of science Philosophy of science |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Website | https://home.uchicago.edu/~rjr6/ |
Robert J. Richards (born 1942) is an author and the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has written or edited seven books about the history of science as well as dozens of articles.
In Nature is the Poetry of Mind, or How Schelling solved Goethe's Kantian Problems Richards describes Goethe's reception of Kant, his orientation on Spinoza, F. W. J. Schelling, and his contributions to evolutionary biology.
He has won several awards, including the Gordon J. Laing Award, the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the Pfizer Award, the George Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society and the Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press and earned a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Richards earned two PhDs: one in the History of Science from the University of Chicago and another in Philosophy from St. Louis University.