Gerad Gentry is a fixed term Assistant Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz specializing in philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics in modern philosophy (esp. Kant, Hegel, and neo-Aristotelianism). Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung postdoctoral Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin and Potsdam, visiting Associate to Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago and Fulbright Fellow
His work on Kant and Hegel engages the systematic relation between ethics, mind, and aesthetics and is focussed on the necessary conditions of epistemic systems and possible answers to radical skepticism. His work also engages the application of these epistemic principles to contemporary questions in philosophy of AI (mind and ethics). His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Kant-Studien, Intellectual History Review, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, de Gruyter, Springer.
Awards: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, DAAD Guest Professorship, USA Fulbright, Cambridge-DAAD Hub grant, Bilinski Fellow, USC Presidential Fellow, Lilly Fellow, University of Notre Dame research grant. Served on the Program Committee of the American Philosophical Association (2021), president of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, referee for the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Cambridge University Press, and on several journal boards.
Select Publications:
2025 (forthcoming) “Hegel and the Role of Literature in Ethical Theory” in Hegel and Literary Studies, edited by Allen Speight. University of Cambridge Press
2025 (forthcoming) “Hegel’s Concept of Actuality and the Life of the Mind: Aristotle, Hegel, and self-activity” Notre Dame Studies in the Philosophy of the Life of the Mind, edited by Katharina Kraus and Stephen Ogden. Springer.
2025 (forthcoming) “Acts and Agency in Two-Kinds of Artificial Intelligence” special issue Epistemic Identity and Epistemic Virtue: Human Mind and Artificial Intelligence, Vodka Strahovnik and the Centre for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of New Technologies