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**R. Lanier Anderson**
R. Lanier Anderson
Alma mater	Yale University (B.A., 1987), University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ph.D., 1993)
Awards	Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College
Main interests	Kant, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Du Bois

R. Lanier Anderson is an American philosopher and J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is an expert on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, and has published widely on both Kant and Nietzsche.^[1]^[2]

Education and career edit

Anderson earned his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Yale University summa cum laude, with an exceptional distinction in the philosophy major. Anderson earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in philosophy in 1993, and has been teaching at Stanford since 1996.^[3] Anderson has previously been a professor at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College.

Anderson is the Executive Director of North American Nietzsche Society.

The Poverty of Conceptual Truth: Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics, OUP, 2015

^ McLear, Colin (25 October 2015). "Review of The Poverty of Conceptual Truth: Kant's Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
^ Laiho, Hemmo (27 September 2016). "R. Lanier Anderson, The Poverty of Conceptual Truth. Kant's Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xviii+408". Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 98 (3). doi:10.1515/agph-2016-0017. ISSN 1613-0650. S2CID 171376582.
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