Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Brown University since 2012, is one of the world's foremost scholars of Kant. Guyer was for many years a Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served on the Graduate Groups for both Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature. Prior to moving to the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois, Chicago. Guyer has written several books on Kant and Kantian themes, and has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. In addition to his work on Kant, Guyer has published on many other figures in the history of philosophy, including Locke, Hume, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and others. Guyer's Kant and The Claims of Knowledge is widely considered to be one of the most significant works in Kant scholarship. Recent works by Guyer include Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume, and The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. His other areas of specialty include the history of philosophy and aesthetics. Guyer has just been elected Vice-President of the American Society for Aesthetics for 2009-11, which will be followed by a term as President for 2011-13 (and then as Past President for 2013-15). Professor Guyer has also recently been appointed Vice-President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, which will be followed by a term as President, and finally a term as Past-President. Guyer graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, where he worked in the Departments of Philosophy and German; his Ph.D. was taken from Harvard University, with a dissertation directed by Stanley Cavell, who was also the director of his Undergraduate Thesis.
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