Eckart Förster was full professor of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1996 to 2003 and then taught as Professor of Philosophy, German, and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore until his retirement in 2021. He had previously taught at Oxford, Harvard and Stanford, supplemented by numerous visiting professorships in North and South America. He completed his studies in Frankfurt and Oxford, where he received his doctorate under P. F. Strawson with a thesis on transcendental arguments. He is also an honorary professor of philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Eckart Förster was awarded the prestigious Kuno Fischer Prize by the University of Heidelberg for his book The 25 Years of Philosophy.
In 2026, Eckart Förster will lead the summer course of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Jena Center for Romanticism Research.
Eckart Förster