Stanford Philosophy Department: Faculty, Staff and Students


Allen Wood Professor of Philosophy Office: Building 100, Room 102O Mailing: Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2155 Phone: (650) 723-2587 Fax: (650) 723-0985 Email: Allen.Wood@stanford.edu

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Education History

B. A., Reed College, Literature and Philosophy, June, 1964
M. A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1966.
Ph. D., Philosophy, Yale University, 1968

Areas of Interest

History of Modern Philosophy (especially German philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries); Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion

Selected Bibliography

Books authored:

Kant's Moral Religion. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,1970.
Kant's Rational Theology. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1978.
Karl Marx. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. Second expanded edition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2004.
Hegel's Ethical Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kant's Ethical Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
With Dieter Schönecker, Immanuel Kant: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. Ein einführender Kommentar, Schöningh-Verlag (UTB Wissenschaft, 2002).
Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality and the Ethics of Belief. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2002.
Kant. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.

Books edited and/or translated:

Edited: Self and Nature in Kant's Philosophy. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1984.
Edited: Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Edited and translated, with George diGiovanni: Kant, Writings on Religion and Rational Theology. Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Edited and translated, with Paul Guyer: Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edited, The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Modern Library Classics. New York: Random House, 2001.
Edited and translated: Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Yale University Press series “Rethinking the Western Tradition”. With critical essays by J. B. Schneewind, Marcia Baron, Allen Wood and Shelly Kagan. Yale University Press, 2002.

Recent Articles:

"Kant's Historical Materialism," in Jane Kneller and Sidney Axinn (eds.), Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
"Kant on Duties Regarding Nonrational Nature," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement, Volume LXXII (1998).
"Kant's Project for Perpetual Peace," P. Cheah and B. Robbins (eds.), Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
"The Final Form of Kant's Practical Philosophy," Mark Timmons (ed.) Essays on Kant's Moral Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
"The 'I' as Principle of Practical Philosophy," in S. Sedgwick (ed.), The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling and Hegel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
"What Dead Philosophers Mean," Stanford Humanities Review 8.2 (2000).
“What is Philosophy?” in S. Heidt and C. S. Ragland (eds.) What is Philosophy? New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
“The Moral Law as a System of Formulas”, in H. Stolzenberg and H. F. Fulda (eds.) Architektur und System in der Philosophie Kants. Hamburg, Meiner Verlag, 2001.
“The Critique of Pure Reason: A Lawful Revolution and A Coming of Age in Metaphysics,” Jorge Gracia, Gregory Reichberg and Bernard Schumacher (eds.), Blackwell Guide to the Classics of Western Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
“Preface and Introduction,” in Ottfried Höffe (ed.) Kant: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, Klassiker Auslegen. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002.
“Kant and the Problem of Human Nature,” in B. Jacobs and P. Kain (eds.) Essays on Kant’s Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
“Kant and Fichte on Right, Welfare and Economic Redistribution,” Yearbook on German Idealism 2 (2004).

Recent Courses

Existentialism and Literature: Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard, Sartre
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Kant's Practical Philosophy
Fichte's Practical Philosophy: Jena Period (1794-1800)
German Idealism and the Origins of Social Radicalism: Fichte, Hegel, Marx
Graduate Seminar on Kant's Critique of Judgment
Graduate Seminar on Kant's Philosophy of History
Graduate Seminar on Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Graduate Seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit