Roberts Stern, a highly respected and deeply missed Kant and Hegel scholar,
passed away on August 21st of this year of brain cancer.
After earning his PhD at Cambridge, he spent 34 years at the University of
Sheffield.
His research covered epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and political
philosophy, and in addition to Kant and Hegel, his interests included
Kierkegaard, Murdoch, Levinas, Peirce and Luther, and Løgstrup. His many publications included the following
books: Hegel, Kant and the Structure
of the Object (1990), Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism:
Answering the Question of Justification (2000), The Routledge
Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (2002/2013),
Hegelian Metaphysics (2009), Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant,
Hegel, Kierkegaard. (2011) Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation
(2015), The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics (2019).
In addition to serving as head of the University of Sheffield Philosophy
Department, he served as editor of the European Journal of Philosophy, editor
of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, President of the Hegel
Society of Great Britain and President of the British Philosophical
Association, and President of the Aristotelian Society.
Robert Stern was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.
More information can be found at University
of Sheffield, DailyNous,
and PhilPapers.
