Robert Arthur Stern (February 1962 – 21 August 2024) was a British philosopher who served as professor of philosophy at the

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. He was an expert on the

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, particularly G. W. F. Hegel and

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. His later research focused on the Danish

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Knud Ejler Løgstrup.

Life and career

Stern was born in February 1962. He graduated from

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, and then became a

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there. Stern became a professor at the University of Sheffield in 2000, and was the head of the Department of Philosophy from 2004 to 2008. He was on the editorial board of the '' European Journal of Philosophy'', and was president of the British Philosophical Association. He was elected a

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in 2019. Stern died from brain cancer on 21 August 2024, at the age of 62.

Works

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External links

Profile: Robert Stern
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