Michael Neil Forster

Michael Neil Forster (born December 9, 1957) is an American philosopher and the Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-director of the International Center for Philosophy at Bonn University. Previously he was Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and the College at the University of Chicago. Forster is known for his expertise on hermeneutics.[1]

Michael Neil Forster
BornDecember 9, 1957
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental
ThesisHegel and Skepticism (1987)
Doctoral advisorRaymond Geuss
Main interests
hermeneutics

Books
  • After Herder (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • German Philosophy of Language from Schlegel to Hegel and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2011)
  • After Herder (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  • Kant and Skepticism (Princeton University Press, 2008)
  • Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (Princeton University Press, 2004)
  • Herder: Philosophical Writings (Ed., Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  • Hegel's Idea of a "Phenomenology of Spirit" (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
  • Hegel and Skepticism (Harvard University Press, 1989)
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gollark: Apparently not!
gollark: Apparently Apple is now making it so that Mac OS Catalina uploads (EDIT: a hash of) *all executables* you run (for the first time on that system) to Apple: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.html
gollark: How are they meant to know when you're dead? You get temporarily reanimated to click a "I agree that I am dead and something something successor" button?
gollark: Must you crush ALL my dreams?

References
  1. "Michael Forster". Department of Philosophy.


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