Paul Guyer

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Paul Guyer, a Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the world's forememost scholars of Kant. Apart from writing several books and essays on Kant and Kantian themes, he has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. He is one of the general editors of the Cambridge Edition of Kant's works in translation. His other areas of speciality include the history of philosophy and aesthetics.

Guyer graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he also received his Ph.D. He received the George Plimpton Adams Prize in Philosophy as an undergraduate and the David and Emily Carrier Prize in Philosophy as a graduate student. In 1996, Harvard honored him with its Centennial Medal, given to alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for "contributions to society as they have emerged from one's graduate education at Harvard."