Paul W. Franks

Paul Walter Franks
Born Newcastle, England
Occupation Scholar, Writer, Academic

Paul Walter Franks is a scholar, writer and professor of philosophy. He graduated with his PhD from Harvard University in 1993, his dissertation supervisor was Stanley Cavell. Franks' dissertation, entitled "Kant and Hegel on the Esotericism of Philosophy", won the Emily and Charles Carrier Prize for a Dissertation in Moral Philosophy at Harvard University. He completed his B.A (First Class) and M.A, in philosophy, politics and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Prior to this, Franks received his general education at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and studied classical rabbinic texts at Gateshead Talmudical College.[1]

His primary areas of research and specialization are Jewish philosophy, Immanuel Kant, German idealism, metaphysics, epistemology, the foundations of human sciences, and post-Kantian approaches within Analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy. He has taught at Indiana University (Bloomington) between 1996 to 2000, University of Notre Dame from 2000 to 2004, the University of Chicago in 2003, and the University of Toronto from 2004 to 2011. Franks has been Faculty Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto; Brackenbury Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford; Lady Davis Graduate Research Fellow at the Hebrew University; Mrs. Giles F. Whiting Dissertation Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University; Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows; and Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.[2]

Franks was appointed as the inaugural holder of the Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2008. He was appointed in 2011 to a senior position at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.[3] In December 2012, Franks gave a lecture entitled "From Indeterminacy to Idealism" at the opening of the Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism at the University of Leipzig.[4]

Family

Franks currently lives in Stamford, Connecticut, with his wife, Hindy Najman and children Ezra and Marianna. Hindy, also a scholar, is a professor at Oxford University. Paul and Hindy previously taught at Yale together before Hindy accepted the job at Oxford.

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