SALLY SEDGWICK

Department of Philosophy, M/C 267
1405 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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Curriculum Vitae

Sally Sedgwick is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Germanic Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985 and until 2003 was on the faculty at Dartmouth College. She has held visiting positions at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the universities of Bonn, Bern and Lucern. Her main area of research is German idealism, in particular the theoretical and practical philosophies of Kant and Hegel. She has been awarded grants by NEH, ACLS, DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Her publications include numerous essays on Kant and Hegel, and the monograph, Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction (2008). She is editor of the volume, The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel (2000), and is completing a book on Hegel's critique of Kant. In July 2009, she will begin her year as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.