Allen Speight

Allen Speight is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. A former Fulbright and DAAD Fellow, his research and teaching interests center on ethics and German Idealism. His first book, Hegel, Literature and the problem of Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2001), traces the importance of literary genres – tragedy, comedy and the romantic novel of the beautiful soul – to the philosophical project of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. He is currently writing a book on the development of the notion of conscience, in particular its transformation in post-Kantian philosophy. His 2003 Berlin Prize-Winning Project is called “Agency and the Claims of Conscience.” Dr. Speight’s current research interests include the philosophy of action and the ethics and aesthetics of German Idealism. His graduate level teaching has included courses on the concept of responsibility, the history of ethics and the philosophy of literature.