Stephen R Palmquist

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After earning my doctorate from Oxford University (St. Peter's College) in September of 1987, I taught in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Hong Kong Baptist University, serving as a Full Professor from 2007 until my retirement in 2021. A friend gave me the Chinese name 龐思奮, which means something like "Gigantic-Thinking-Struggle", which I thought aptly encapsulates the main focus of my research over the past 40+ years: to make sense of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

I specialize in Kant's epistemology, philosophy of religion, and in the architectonic structure of Kant’s System. My 210+ publications, mostly on Kant, include 14 books and two or more articles in each of the following journals: Kant-Studien; Kantian Review; Journal of Chinese Philosophy (5); Faith and Philosophy (5); Journal of Religion (3); Philosophy & Theology; Philosphia Christi; The Heythrop Journal; Philosophia Mathematica; Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe); Arete: International Journal of Philosophy, Human & Social Sciences; Polish Journal of Philosophy; and Review of Metaphysics. My award winning website, Kant on the Web (www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/Kant.html) is one of the world's largest collections of internet resources on Kant. In 1999 I founded the Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe, an organization that grew at one point to five branches with over 800 members, holding public meetings for discussion on a wide range of philosophical issues. Before I left Hong Kong and relocated to Los Angeles to continue my writing as an Independent Researcher, I passed on the leadership of the Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe to a small committee, who have been continuing to organize monthly meetings since I left.

I have also served as Convenor of two "Kant in Asia" international conferences, held at HKBU in May of 2009 (on "The Unity of Human Personhood") and in December of 2016 (on "Intuition, East and West").
Supervisors: John Macquarrie and W.H. Walsh
Phone: 852-3411-7289 (Hong Kong)