GLIP 2010: Paul Franks

Professor Paul Franks is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

 

Educated at Oxford and Harvard, his research interests include Jewish philosophy, Kant, German idealism, post-Kantian approaches within analytic and continental philosophy, transcendental arguments, metaphysics and epistemology, and the foundations of the human sciences. 

 

Professor Franks has recently published All or Nothing: Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments and Systematicity in German Idealism (2005). His talk, entitled “German Idealism, Anti-Semitism, and the Significance of Jewish Philosophy in Multicultural Modernity” (audio) attracted a substantial audience and there was a lively discussion period afterward.