Robert M. Wallace (philosopher)

Wallace holds a B.A. from Oxford University and a Ph.D.

Robert M. Wallace received a B.A. (first class) in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University in 1968, where he studied at Balliol College and worked with Martin Hollis, Alan Montefiore, Steven Lukes, and briefly, Arthur Prior. He taught for several years at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, then spent a year in the Philosophy doctoral program at Yale University, working with Karsten Harries, Frederick Oscanyan, and Rulon Wells, earning an M.A. in 1973. In 1994, he earned his PhD from Cornell University, with a dissertation on F. H. Bradley and Hegel, entitled Autonomy and the Agent’s Final End: Hegel’s Reformulation of Kant’s Argument for the Rationality of Morality in philosophy.{{Cite web |title=Autonomy and the agent's final end : Hegel's reformulation of Kant's argument for the rationality of morality {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/64082280 |access-date=2025-07-02 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}}

In the meantime, Wallace translated Hans Blumenberg’s The Legitimacy of the Modern Age into English. With the help of Tom McCarthy, it was eventually published by MIT Press. He went on to translate and write on Blumenberg’s Work on Myth and The Genesis of the Copernican World, as well as other German philosophical works, including Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Plato’s Dialectical Ethics.

His 2005 book, Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God was reviewed by Jane Dryden,{{Cite journal |last1=Dryden |first1=Jane |last2=Hegel Society of America, in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center |date=2006 |title=Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God, by Robert M. Wallace |url=http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=owl_2006_0038_0001_0203_0208&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection |journal=Owl of Minerva |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=203–208 |doi=10.5840/owl2006/2007381/219 |issn=0030-7580}} Jean-Marie Lardic,{{Cite journal |last=Lardic |first=Jean-Marie |date=2007 |title=Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XVII (2007) |url=https://shs.cairn.info/revue-archives-de-philosophie-2007-4-page-653 |journal=Archives de philosophie |language=fr |volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=653–679 |doi=10.3917/aphi.704.0653 |issn=0003-9632}} Robert R. Williams,{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Robert R. |author-link=Robert R. Williams (philosopher) |title=Robert M. Wallace, Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 380pp, $75.00 (hbk), ISBN 0521844843. |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/hegel-s-philosophy-of-reality-freedom-and-god/}} Peter Steinberger,{{Cite journal |last=Steinberger |first=Peter |date=2007 |title=Review of Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom and God |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20130881 |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=890–892 |jstor=20130881 |issn=0034-6632}} and Richard Crouter.{{Cite journal |last=Crouter |first=Richard |date=2006 |title=Review of Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668096 |journal=German Studies Review |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=454–455 |jstor=27668096 |issn=0149-7952}} The interpretation of Hegel presented by Wallace in this book has sparked an intriguing debate between him and Robert R. Williams.{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Robert R. |last2=Hegel Society of America, in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center |date=2011 |title=Hegel’s Concept of The True Infinite: |url=http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=owl_2011_0042_40545_0089_0122&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection |journal=Owl of Minerva |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=89–122 |doi=10.5840/owl2010/2011421/25 |issn=0030-7580}}{{Cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Robert R. |last2=Hegel Society of America, in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center |date=2011 |title=Hegel's True Infinity As Panentheism: Reply to Robert Wallace |url=http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=owl_2011_0042_40545_0137_0152&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection |journal=Owl of Minerva |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=137–152 |doi=10.5840/owl2010/2011421/27 |issn=0030-7580}}{{Cite journal |last1=Wallace |first1=Robert M. |last2=Hegel Society of America, in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center |date=2011 |title=True Infinity and Hegel's Rational Mysticism: A Reply to Professor Williams |url=http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=owl_2011_0042_40545_0123_0135&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection |journal=Owl of Minerva |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=123–135 |doi=10.5840/owl2010/2011421/26 |issn=0030-7580}}{{Citation |last=Rinaldi |first=Giacomo |title=The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Hegel's Philosophy of Self-Consciousness |date=2016-04-25 |work=Hegel and Metaphysics |pages=89–108 |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110424447-008/html |access-date=2025-06-18 |publisher=De Gruyter |language=en |doi=10.1515/9783110424447-008 |isbn=978-3-11-042444-7 |author-link=Giacomo Rinaldi}}

• {{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139173384 |chapter=|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139173384|title=Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God|date=2005|last1=|first1=|isbn=978-0-521-84484-0}}{{Cite web |last=Robert R. |first=Williams |author-link=Robert R. Williams (philosopher) |date=January 14, 2006 |title=Robert M. Wallace, Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 380pp, $75.00 (hbk), ISBN 0521844843. |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/hegel-s-philosophy-of-reality-freedom-and-god/ |website=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews}}
• {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_vKDwAAQBAJ |title=Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present|date=26 December 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-1-350-08287-8}}{{Cite journal |last=Sutherland |first=Keith |date=2022-01-01 |title=Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel and the Present |url=https://www.academia.edu/84165287 |journal=Journal of Consciousness Studies}}{{Cite journal |date=2022-12-01 |title=Book Reviews |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jcs/2022/00000029/f0020011/art00012;jsessionid=54nkartpjcan5.x-ic-live-02 |journal=Journal of Consciousness Studies |volume=29 |issue=11–12 |pages=232–254 |doi=10.53765/20512201.29.11.232}}

• {{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=1995 |title=Mutual Recognition and Ethics: A Hegelian Reformulation of the Kantian Argument for the Rationality of Morality |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20009827 |journal=American Philosophical Quarterly |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=263–270 |issn=0003-0481}}{{Cite journal |last=Shannon |first=Daniel E. |last2=Hegel Society of America, in cooperation with the Philosophy Documentation Center |date=1995 |title=Hegel at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago: |url=http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=owl_1995_0027_0001_0117_0117&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection |journal=Owl of Minerva |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=117–118 |doi=10.5840/owl199527134 |issn=0030-7580}}

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