Gerad Gentry

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About

  • PROFESSIONAL: theoretical philosophy, value theory (ethics, aesthetics, mind), modern philosophy, particularly Kant and Hegel, and Neo-Aristotelian philosophy


  • I am an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin. Previously, I was a DAAD visiting Professor at the University of Mainz (2021), AvH Fellow at the University of Potsdam (2020-21), visiting Associate to Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago (2018-2021),  Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lewis University (2018-2020), PhD awarded August 2018.


  • I am interested in systematic conceptions of inner purposiveness as a normative principle in theoretical philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind. I am broadly interested in the effects of systematic notions of becoming and formation from Heraclitus and Aristotle through Kant, Hegel, and Goethe to Gadamer, Cassirer,  Kuhn, and Philippa Foot, to contemporary debates in philosophy. I am also interested in comparative ethics and normative theories that manage to be both universal and developmental, and theories of time and identity,  scientific paradigms, and the formative value of the fine arts for self-consciousness and society. Within applied ethics, I am interested in theories of kind-derived norms that can account for universal rights and unique responsibility relative to the kind in question. I am also interested in the application of theories of identity and ethics to emergent forms of artificial intelligence; and the conditions of intelligibility for all possible, even non-human forms of self-consciousness.


  • Select Publications:
  • 2022. "Artworks are Valuable for their own Sake"  Journal of the American Philosophical Association: 1-19.
  • 2022. "Pure Synthesis and the Principle of the Synthetic Unity of Apperception" Kant-Studien 113, no. 1: 8-39
  • 2022. “Hegel’s Logic of Negation,” in Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, ed. by Moss, Springer: 397-419
  • 2023. "Hegel's End of Art and Artworks as Internally Purposive Wholes" Journal of the History of Philosophy (forth.)
  • 2023. “Goethe’s Theory of Art: Rethinking Organic Wholes and Architecture” Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics (forth.)
  • 2021. “The Concept of Life in German Idealism and its Aristotelian Roots” Intellectual History Review 31, no. 3: 379-390. 
  • 2019. “The Ground of Hegel’s Logic of Life and the Unity of Reason: The Free Lawfulness of the Imagination” The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism. Ed. Gerad Gentry and Konstantin Pollok. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Gerad Gentry, Ph.D.

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Alexander von Humboldt Faculty Fellow

Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin, Germany

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  • Awards
  • Bilinski Fellow (VAR) at Yale University, and US Fulbright recipient.


  • My professional service  includes serving as a member of the American Philosophical Association program committee ('20-21),  founding president of the Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (www.thesgir.org) (2016-present), editorial board member of the Yale Law School's Journal of law and the Humanities (17-18), and referring for Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,  the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press.

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"...To lead you to an overwhelming question ...

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit.

And indeed there will be time

And time yet for a hundred indecisions,

And for a hundred visions and revisions,

Before the taking of a toast and tea.

And indeed there will be time

To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”

Time to turn back and descend the stair

Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

I know the voices dying with a dying fall

Beneath the music from a farther room.

              So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all—

The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,

Then how should I begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

              And how should I presume?

Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? 

And would it have been worth it, after all,

After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,

Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,

Would it have been worth while,

To have bitten off the matter with a smile,

To have squeezed the universe into a ball

To roll it towards some overwhelming question"

T.S. Eliot

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