Willem deVries

Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire

Willem deVries is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. His books include Hegel’s Theory of Mental Activity (1988); Knowledge, Mind, and the Given: A Reading of Sellars’ ‘Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind’ (2000), co-authored with Timm Triplett; Wilfrid Sellars, Philosophy Now Series (2005); and the edited collection Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars (2009).

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Hegel today

Too dense, too abstract, too suspect, Hegel was outside the Anglophone canon for a century. Why is his star rising again?

Willem deVries