Terry Pinkard

Terry Pinkard
Born1947 (age 77–78)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (BA, MA)
Stony Brook University (PhD)
ThesisThe Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl (1975)
Doctoral advisorPatrick A. Heelan, Don Ihde
Other advisorsKlaus Hartmann
Academic work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or traditionContinental philosophy, Hegelianism, Postanalytic philosophy
InstitutionsGeorgetown University
Main interestsHistory 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.[1] 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."[2]

Education and career

Pinkard earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University with the dissertation, The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl.[3][4] He taught at Georgetown University from 1975 to 2000, at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005, but returned to Georgetown in 2005.[1]

Selected publications

  • Pinkard, Terry (2023). Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197663127.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-766312-7.
  • Pinkard, Terry (2022). Practice, Power, and Forms of Life. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226815473.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-81324-0.
  • Pinkard, Terry (2017). Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674978782. ISBN 978-0-674-97878-2.[5][6][7]
  • Pinkard, Terry (2012). Hegel's NaturalismMind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860791.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-986079-1.

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. "Terry Pinkard". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: The Phenomenology of Spirit
  3. ^ "THE FOUNDATIONS OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM: KANT, HEGEL, HUSSERL. - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
  4. ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
  5. ^ Tripaldi, Elena (2017). "Terry Pinkard, Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice, Harvard University Press, 2017, pp. 272, € 45,00, ISBN 9780674971776". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Yeomans, Christopher. "Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-07-29. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
  7. ^ Abazari, Arash (2019). "Terry Pinkard. Does History Make Sense? Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-674-97177-6 (hbk). Pp. 272. £39.95". Hegel Bulletin. 40 (3): 500–504. doi:10.1017/hgl.2017.21. ISSN 2051-5367.