Allen Wood
Ruth Norman Halls
Professor of Philosophy
Office: Sycamore Hall 124
Phone: 856-0912
Email: awwood 
indiana.edu
Education
- Reed College, B.A. 1964
- Yale University, M.A 1966, Ph.D. 1968
My interests are in the history of modern philosophy, especially Kant and German idealism, and in ethics and social philosophy. I study philosophers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who laid the foundations for the philosophy we study today and the ideas many people take for granted without knowing where they came from.
I was born in Seattle, Washington, got my B. A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and my Ph.D. from Yale University. I have held regular professorships at Cornell University, Yale University, and am Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor emeritus at Stanford University. I have also held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan, University of California at San Diego and Oxford University, where I was Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor in 2005. During year-long periods of research, I have been affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin in 1983-84 and the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1991-1992.
At Indiana University I have taught courses in the history of modern philosophy, Kant and existentialism. I have the following books: Kant's Moral Religion (1970, reissued 2009), Kant’s Rational Theology (1978, reissued 2009), Karl Marx (1981, second expanded edition 2004), Hegel’s Ethical Thought (1990), Kant’s Ethical Thought (1999), Unsettling Obligations (2002), Kant (2004) and Kantian Ethics (2008). I am general editor (with Paul Guyer) of the Cambridge Edition of Kant’s Writings in English Translation, for which I have edited, translated or otherwise contributed to six volumes. Among the other books I have edited are Self and Nature in Kant’s Philosophy (1984), Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1991), Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2002), Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (2010), and (with Songsuk Susan Hahn), the Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (2011). I am currently working on a book on Fichte’s Ethical Thought.
