Frank Kirkland

Research Interests

• Kant
• 19th & 20th Century European Philosophy
• Africana Philosophy

Courses Recently Taught

• Philosophy of Race (Spring 2015)

Representative Publications

• "Enslavement, Moral Suasion, & Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass' Answer to the Question -- 'What is Enlightenment?'" in Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, eds. B.E. Lawson and F.M. Kirkland (Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1999), pp. 242-310.

• "Hegel and Phenomenology" in The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, eds. Embree, J.N. Mohanty, T. Seebohm, et al (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), pp. 292-298.

• "Kant and Phenomenology" in The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (ibid.), pp. 377-82.

• "Hegel and Husserl: On Rationality and Actuality" in Husserl Studies, vol. 13, (1996), pp. 155-81.

• "Hegel's Critique of Psychologism" in Phenomenology East and West, ed. F.M. Kirkland, (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993), pp. 219-44.

• "Modernity and Intellectual Life in Black" in The Philosophical Forum, vol. 24, nos. 1-3, (1992-93), pp. 136-65.