Robert M. Wallace

Robert Marston Wallace (born 1947) is a philosopher.

Life and works Wallace received a B.A. (first class) in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University in 1968, where he studied at Balliol College and worked with Martin Hollis, Alan Montefiore, Steven Lukes, and briefly, Arthur Prior. He taught for several years at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, then spent a year in the Philosophy doctoral program at Yale University, working with Karsten Harries, Frederick Oscanyan, and Rulon Wells, earning an M.A. in 1973. In 1994, he earned his PhD from Cornell University, with a dissertation on F. H. Bradley and Hegel, entitled Autonomy and the Agent’s Final End: Hegel’s Reformulation of Kant’s Argument for the Rationality of Morality in philosophy.

In the meantime, Wallace translated Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age into English. With the help of Tom McCarthy, it was eventually published by MIT Press. He went on to translate and write on Blumenberg's Work on Myth and The Genesis of the Copernican World, as well as other German philosophical works, including Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Plato’s Dialectical Ethics.'' Jean-Marie Lardic, Robert R. Williams, Peter Steinberger, and Richard Crouter. The interpretation of Hegel presented by Wallace in this book has sparked an intriguing debate between him and Robert R. Williams.

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