Sally Sedgwick

Sally Sedgwick
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Kantian, Hegelianism, Historicism
Main interests	Hegel, Kant, Ethics, Epistemology
Influences G. W. F. Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Nietzche, John McDowell

Sally Sedgwick is an American philosopher. She is the LAS Distinguished Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Life

Sedgwick earned her BA in Philosophy from University of California, Santa Cruz and her Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Chicago under the direction of Manley Thompson. Before moving to UIC, she taught for a number of years in the department of philosophy at Dartmouth.

Academic work

Sedgwick is best known for her work on Kant, Hegel, and especially the relation between the two philosopher. The result of her analysis of this relation was finally published in a very well-received monograph, Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity. Sedgwick argues that Hegel criticized Kant for his ambitions to give an account of human cognition in terms of necessary and non-historical categories. She is now working on the details of Hegel's philosophy of history and its relation to his theory of knowledge and ethics.

Sedgwick has been awarded various grants by the NEH, ACLS, DAAD, Fulbright, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has been a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, University of Bonn, University of Bern, and Universität Luzern. In 2009, Sedgwick was appointed the president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

Bibliography

• Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

External links

• An interview with Sally Sedgwick
• Profile on Sedgwick in Tableau