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Stephen Engstrom, Associate Professor

Ethics, Metaphysics, Modern Philosophy (especially Kant), Ancient Philosophy

PhD, Chicago, 1986

engstrom@pitt.edu

Stephen Engstrom is associate professor. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 1990, he taught at the University of Chicago and at Harvard. His areas of interest include ethics, metaphysics, modern philosophy (especially Kant), and ancient philosophy. He is co-editor (with Jennifer Whiting) of Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (Cambridge, 1996); and has published articles on Kant's ethics and epistemology.

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“The Concept of the Highest Good in Kant’s Moral Theory,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1992), 747–80.

“The Transcendental Deduction and Skepticism,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (1994), 359–80.

“Happiness and the Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant,” in S. Engstrom and J. Whiting, eds., Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 102–38.

“Kant’s Conception of Practical Wisdom,” Kant-Studien 88 (1997), 16–43.

“The Inner Freedom of Virtue,” in Mark Timmons, ed., Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays (Oxford University Press, 2002), 289–315.

“Kant’s Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge,” The Harvard Review of Philosophy 10 (2002), 49–63.

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