Sebastian Gardner

Sebastian Angus Gardner (born 19 March 1960) is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy in the University College London. He is known for his expertise on Kant, German Idealism, and Freud.[1][2]

Sebastian Gardner
Born (1960-03-19) 19 March 1960
EducationCambridge University (PhD)
AwardsLeverhulme Research Fellowship
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolGerman idealism
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisSartre's critique of Freud: irrationality and the philosophy of psychoanalysis (1987)
Main interests
Kant, nineteenth-century German philosophy, aesthetics
Websitehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctyseg/

Education and career

Gardner earned his B.A. in 1982 and his Ph.D. in 1987, both from Cambridge University. He taught first at Birkbeck College, London and, since 1998, at UCL.[3] He has written extensively on Freud and psychoanalysis, on Kant, and on post-Kantian philosophy, including Fichte, Schelling, and Nietzsche.

Books
  • Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Cambridge University Press, 1993
  • Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason, Routledge, 1999
  • Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Continuum, 2009

Edited
  • Art and Morality, edited with Jose Luis Bermudez, Routledge, 2003
  • The Transcendental Turn, edited with Matthew Grist, Oxford University Press, 2015

References
  1. Cottingham, John (October 1996). "Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis". The Philosophical Quarterly. Cambridge University Press. 46 (185): 544–546. doi:10.2307/2956372. JSTOR 2956372.
  2. Shabel, Lisa (1 July 2001). "Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. Sebastian Gardner". Mind. 110 (439): 753–756. doi:10.1093/mind/110.439.753. ISSN 0026-4423.
  3. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/people/permanent-academic-staff/sebastian-gardner
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