Biography

Michael Rohlf is originally from Kansas City and studied philosophy and classics as an undergraduate at Trinity University in San Antonio before earning his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He previously taught at Skidmore College and Brown University before coming to CUA in 2008.

He is the author of the general article on Kant in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and has published articles on Kant's moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; Kant's relationship to other modern philosophers such as Hume and Rousseau; and contemporary Kantian moral philosophy. He is also the editor of the journal The Review of Metaphysics and of the book The Modern Turn. His current research focuses on post-Kantian Germanic philosophy.

Dr. Rohlf regularly teaches undergraduate courses in the history of modern philosophy, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of sport, as well as graduate courses on Germanic philosophy from Kant through Marx.

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