b. 1948
Paul Guyer is an American philosopher widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Immanuel Kant. His extensive work on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of modern philosophy has shaped Anglophone Kant scholarship for decades.
Authored Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (1987), a landmark study of the Critique of Pure Reason
Co-translated and co-edited the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
Wrote Kant and the Claims of Taste, a foundational work in Kantian aesthetics
Authored the three-volume A History of Modern Aesthetics
Served as Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University