Professor Robert Lawrence Wicks

BA (Michigan State) , MA , PhD (Wisconsin)

Professor

In: Philosophy » Humanities » Faculty of Arts

Research | Current

Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Hegel
Kant
History of Aesthetics
Existentialism

Teaching | Current

PHIL 100 Mind, Knowledge and Reality

PHIL 340 Kant and Hegel

Postgraduate supervision

PhD Supervision

2008: David Nickless, Interpreting References to the Subject in Philosophical Writings

2006: Tony Stroobant, A Psychoanalytic Study of Anti-Semitism (with Philip Culbertson, School of Theology)

2005: Geoffey Roche, An Unblinking Gaze (with Stefano Franchi)

Associate Professor Robert Wicks's Postgraduate Supervision

Responsibilities

School of Humanities, Deputy Head of School for Teaching and Learning

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Wicks, R. L. (Ed.) (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Pages: 600. Related URL.
Wicks, R. (2017). Nietzsche's life and works. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.) Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (pp. ). Stanford, Calif., USA: Stanford University.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39197
Wicks, R. (2017). Kant's theory of freedom in the fourfold root as the progenitor of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of will. In J. Head, D. Vanden Auweele (Eds.) Schopenhauer's fourfold root (pp. 199-212). New York, USA: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39199
Wicks, R. J. (2017). Schopenhauer and the problem of consciousness. In S. Leach, J. Tartaglia (Eds.) Consciousness and the great philosophers: What would they have said about our mind-body problem? (pp. 142-151). London, UK: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39100
Wicks, R. (2017). Schopenhauer and Judaism. In S. Shapshay (Ed.) The Palgrave Schopenhauer handbook (pp. 325-349). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39219
Wicks, R. (2016). The impact of idealism: The legacy of Post-Kantian German thought, Volume III: Aesthetics and literature by Christoph Jamme and Ian Cooper (eds.), [book review]. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39204
Wicks, R. (2016). Introduction to Schopenhauer. In B. D. Crowe (Ed.) The nineteenth century philosophy reader (pp. 252-261). London, UK: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/39208
Wicks, R. (2015). The divine inspiration for Kant's formalist theory of beauty. Kant Studies Online
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/25788