Terry Pinkard
Terry Pinkard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| 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 advisor | 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 |
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. 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."