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R. Lanier Anderson
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Office: 101D
Mailing:
Department of Philosophy, Building 90
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2155
Phone: Ext. 3-0764
Email: lanier@Turing.Stanford.EDU

Personal Portrait

Education History
BA, Yale University, 1987
MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Areas of Interest
History of late modern philosophy, especially Kant, Nietzsche, neo-Kantianism, 19th century philosophy.
Selected Bibliography
Recent Articles:
  • "The Debate over the Geisteswissenschaften in German Philosophy: 1880-1910," forthcoming in the Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1870-1945, ed. T. Baldwin.
  • "Truth and Objectivity in Perspectivism," Synthese 115: 1-32 (1998).
  • "Overcoming Charity: the Case of Maudemarie Clark's Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy," Nietzsche-Studien 25: 307-41 (1996).
  • "Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Doctrine of the Unity of Science," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25: 729-50 (1994).
Available in Draft:
  • "On the Meaning of Kant's Question 'How are synthetic cognitions a priori possible?'"
  • "Neo-Kantianism, Psychologism, and the Human Sciences"
  • "Neo-Kantianism, Normativity, and Psychologism"
Recent Courses
  • Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
  • Kant's System of Reason
  • Genealogical Method and the Genetic Fallacy
  • Existentialism
  • Philosophy of the Human Sciences
  • Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
  • Nietzsche
  • History of Modern Philosophy

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