Dr. Gerad Gentry

Gerad Gentry works on questions of systematicity and radical skepticism in metaethics, theoretical philosophy, and aesthetics in modern philosophy (esp. Kant, Hegel, and neo-Aristotelianism). He is particularly interested in the nature of action and rational agency and the foundations of normativity (ethical, epistemic, and aesthetic). He is also interested in principles of normativity governing non-rational agency (e.g. philosophy of artificial intelligence).

Prior to coming to Baylor, he was a DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Mainz, Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and Potsdam, research associate at the University of Chicago, visiting Assistant Researcher at Yale University, and teaching fellow at the University of Freiburg.

Recent work includes:

Hegel on Freedom and Ethical Life (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

"Hegel and the Role of Literature in Ethical Theory" in Hegel and Literary Studies, (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

"Artworks are Valuable for their own Sake," Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2023)

"Hegel's End of Art and the Artwork as an Internally Purposive Whole," Journal of the History of Philosophy (2023)

"Pure Synthesis and the Principle of the Synthetic Unity of Apperception," Kant Studien (2022)

Education

Ph.D. University of  Cambridge 

Ph.D. University of South Carolina

M.A. University of Chicago

B.A. Houghton College