Karl P. Ameriks (born 1947)[1] is an American philosopher. He is the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Karl Ameriks | |
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Born | 1947 |
Education | Yale University (Ph.D.) |
Awards | American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Kantian philosophy |
Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
Thesis | Cartesianism and Wittgenstein: The Legacy of Subjectivism in Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | Karsten Harries |
Ameriks studied at Yale University, A.B., summa cum laude (1969), Ph.D. (1973), where he wrote his thesis under the direction of Karsten Harries. He joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 1973, and taught there for more than forty years.
He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and has written widely in the history of late modern and Continental philosophy. Ameriks co-edits the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[2]