The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Michael Friedman (Stanford University) will deliver the 2021 de Gruyter Kant Lecture at the 2021 Central Division meeting in New Orleans, LA.
The de Gruyter Kant Lecture Series is open to a broad approach to Kantian philosophy across the philosophical disciplines. This may also include contemporary philosophical work in the Kantian tradition. The lecture, which includes a $1,500 monetary award plus travel costs not to exceed $1,500, is offered annually at an APA divisional meeting on a rotating basis.
The chair of the selection committee said, “Michael Friedman’s distinguished work in the intersection of Kant, Philosophy of Science, and the History of Twentieth Century Philosophy, which includes eight monographs, two edited volumes, an edited volume devoted entirely to his own work, and articles too numerous to count has been well recognized throughout the philosophical community for the past 35 years. The APA is happy to do so again with the 2021 de Gruyter Kant Lecture.”
Friedman received his BA from Queens College in 1969 and PhD from Princeton University in 1973. He is currently Patrick Suppes Professor of the Philosophy of Science at Stanford. Among his publications are Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science (1983), Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992), Reconsidering Logical Positivism (1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000), Dynamics of Reason: the 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001), and Kant’s Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2013, 2015). He is the editor (and translator) of Immanuel Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (2004), co-editor (with A. Nordmann) of The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science (2006), and co-editor (with R. Creath) of The Cambridge Companion to Carnap (2007).
