Robert Louden-retired
- Professor of Philosophy
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
- MA, University of Chicago
- BA, University of California, Santa Cruz
I received my Undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1975, and completed my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1981 with a Dissertation entitled “The Elements of Ethics: Toward a Topography of the Moral Field.” My areas of interest in philosophy are Ethical Theory, History of Ethics, and the history of Philosophy.
I am a member of the American Philosophical Association, The North American Kant Society, and the American Society for 18th Century Studies. Before teaching at USM, I taught at Iowa State University, Indiana University Northwest, and at Barat College in Illinois. My favorite philosopher is Immanuel Kant.
Selected Publications
Johann Bernhard Basedow and the Transformation of Modern Education: Educational Reform in the German Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2021; paperback, 2022).
Anthropology from a Kantian Point of View. Cambridge Elements Series: The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. (Cambridge University Press, paperback, 2021).
Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2011; paperback, 2014).
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
- MA, University of Chicago
- BA, University of California, Santa Cruz