Terry P. Pinkard (born 1947) is an American

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

. His research and teaching focus on the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to the present. 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."

Education and career

Pinkard earned his B.A. and M.A. from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

and his Ph.D. from

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

with the dissertation, ''The Foundations of Transcendental Idealism: Kant, Hegel, Husserl''. He taught at

from 1975 to 2000, at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

from 2000 to 2005, but returned to Georgetown in 2005.

Selected publications

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