Berkley Center

Terry P. Pinkard has been a University Professor in the Office of the President at Georgetown University since 2005 and was a co-leader of the 2014-2015 Moral Innovation Seminar sponsored by the Normative Orders Collaborative. Pinkard taught at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005, having previously taught at Georgetown from 1975 to 2000; he was also a senior research scholar at Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics from 1981 to 2000. His research and teaching focuses on exploring the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to the present. His many publications include Hegel’s Naturalism: Mind, Nature and the Final Ends of Life (2012), German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism (2002), Hegel: A Biography (2000), and Democratic Liberalism and Social Union (1987), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. Pinkard holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.