Henry E. Allison

Henry E. Allison
Born(1937-04-25)April 25, 1937
DiedJune 5, 2023(2023-06-05) (aged 86)
EducationYale University (BA)
Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary (New York) (MA)
New School for Social Research (PhD)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests
Immanuel Kant
Notable ideas
"two aspects" interpretation of transcendental idealism

Henry Edward Allison (April 25, 1937 – June 5, 2023) was an American scholar of Immanuel Kant, widely considered to be one of the most eminent English-language Kant scholars of the postwar era.[1][2] He was a professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of California, San Diego[3] and a professor at Boston University.[4]

Life and career

Allison graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1959.[5] He wanted to work on philosophy of religion, and so he enrolled at Columbia University; it had a joint master's program with Union Theological Seminary (New York).[5] He received his M.A. in 1961. He then entered the Ph.D. program in philosophy at Columbia. However, he signed up for a course on the Critique of Pure Reason taught by Aron Gurwitsch at the New School for Social Research. As a result, "I did decide to transfer to the New School and work with Gurwitsch."[5] He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the New School for Social research in 1964 with a dissertation on Lessing written under the direction of Gurwitsch.[6] After teaching at the State University of New York at Potsdam, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Florida,[5] he taught from 1973 until 1996 at the University of California, San Diego, where an endowed chair was named in his honor.[7] After a visiting appointment as the John Findlay Visiting Professor in 1995, he joined the faculty at Boston University in 1996, remaining until 2004.[6] His final appointment was at the University of California, Davis.[8] He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1996[9] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023.[10] He died before he could be inducted, on June 5, 2023, at the age of 86.[11]

Philosophical work

His areas of interest were Immanuel Kant, Baruch Spinoza, German idealism, 18th and 19th century philosophy.[4] Allison was perhaps best known for his 1983 book, Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense, which proposed a new "epistemological" reading of the Critique of Pure Reason that was both radically different from standard interpretations and offered responses to many of the objections advanced by philosophers like Paul Guyer. The "two aspects' reading "interprets transcendental idealism as a fundamentally epistemological theory that distinguishes between two standpoints on the objects of experience: the human standpoint, from which objects are viewed relative to epistemic conditions that are peculiar to human cognitive faculties (namely, the a priori forms of our sensible intuition); and the standpoint of an intuitive intellect, from which the same objects could be known in themselves and independently of any epistemic conditions."[12]

Bibliography

  • Lessing and the Enlightenment. Michigan University Press (1966). 2nd. ed., State University of New York Press (2018).
  • The Kant-Eberhard Controversy. The Johns Hopkins University Press (1973).
  • Benedict de Spinoza. Twayne Publishers (1975). Rev. ed., Yale University Press, 1987.
  • Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. Yale University Press (1983).
  • Kant's Theory of Freedom. Cambridge University Press (1990).
  • Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press (1996).
  • Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment. Cambridge University Press (2001).
  • Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. Rev. ed., Yale University Press (2004).
  • Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise. Oxford: Clarendon Press (2008).
  • Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary. Oxford University Press (2011).
  • Essays on Kant. Oxford University Press (2012).
  • Kant's Transcental Deduction: An Analytical-Historical Commentary. Oxford University Press (2015).
  • Kant's Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis. Cambridge University Press (2020).
  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Spinoza. Cambridge University Press (2022).

See also

References

  1. ^ Leiter, Brian (February 18, 2016). "Best Anglophone and German Kant scholars since 1945?". Leiter Reports. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
  2. ^ Thielke, Peter (2015). "Allison, Henry". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Third ed.). New York City: Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-139-05750-9. OCLC 927145544.
  3. ^ "UC San Diego Philosophy Faculty". UC San Diego. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Henry Allison profile". Boston University. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d Gross, Steven (Spring 1996). "Henry Allison: Personal and Professional" (PDF). The Harvard Review of Philosophy. 6 (1): 31–45. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  6. ^ a b Gross, Steven A. (1996). "Henry Allison: Personal and Professional" (PDF). The Harvard Review of Philosophy. 6 (1): 31–45. doi:10.5840/harvardreview1996613. ISSN 1062-6239. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-13. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  7. ^ "Endowed Chairs". UC San Diego. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
  8. ^ Leiter, Brian. "In Memoriam: Henry E. Allison (1937-2023)". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Utenlandske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  10. ^ New Members Elected in 2023 American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  11. ^ "In Memoriam: Professor Henry E. Allison 1937–2023". Boston University Arts & Sciences. 26 July 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  12. ^ Rohlf, Michael (2020). "Kant". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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