b. 1947
Karl Ameriks is an American philosopher and leading scholar of Kant and post-Kantian German idealism. He is the McMahon-Hank Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, known for interpretive work on Kant's theoretical philosophy, the reception of Kant, and the development of German idealism through Reinhold, Fichte, and Hegel.
Authored Kant's Theory of Mind, a major study of the Paralogisms and Kant's philosophy of mind
Wrote Kant and the Fate of Autonomy, tracing the post-Kantian reception of Kant's practical philosophy
Served as co-editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
Edited The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism
Longtime editor of the journal Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal and influential figure in North American Kant scholarship