R. Lanier Anderson (philosopher)

R. Lanier Anderson
AwardsDean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching
Education
Alma materYale University (B.A., 1987), University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ph.D., 1993)
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsStanford University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College
Main interestsKant, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Du Bois

R. Lanier Anderson is an American philosopher and J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is an expert on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, and has published widely on both Kant and Nietzsche.