Eckart Forster

Eckart Förster, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in German and the Humanities Center. He is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). Förster received his B.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He previously taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Munich, and held visiting appointments at Princeton, Porto Alegre (Brazil), and at Ohio State. He has held an ACLS fellowship and spent 1987-88 as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. He is a member of the Kant Kommission of the Berlin-Brandenburgian Academy of Science, and of the Schelling and Jacobi Kommissionen of the Bavarian Academy of Science. He has published widely on Kant and German Idealism, especially on Kant's Opus postumum, and is the author, most recently, of Kant's Final Synthesis (Harvard UP, 2000). Other current research interests include Goethe's philosophy of science, the Pythagorean tradition, and Hölderlin.