Paul Wilford
Paul T. Wilford joined the Political Science Department of Boston College in 2016. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Tulane University in 2016. He holds a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John’s College (Annapolis) as well as a B.A. in classics and an M.Phil. in political thought and intellectual history from King’s College, Cambridge University. His principal areas of research are German Idealism (especially Kant and Hegel), Ancient Greek Philosophy (especially Aristotle), and the Philosophy of History.
He is co-editor of Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties (PENN, 2021) and of Athens, Arden, Jerusalem: Essays in Honor of Mera Flaumenhaft (Lexington Books, 2017). He has published on Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Hans Jonas, and Shakespeare. He is currently working on a book entitled Philosophy After Heidegger: Human Historicity and the Search for Hope in Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, and Emil Fackenheim.
Last updated on November 30th, 2023