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Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D.: New School For Social Research
fkirklan@hunter.cuny.edu 

Elected to the Hunter philosophy faculty in 1985 and was chairperson of the department from the start of July 1998 to the end of June 2010. Elected to the doctoral faculty of the PhD Program in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in spring 1989. Taught briefly at the University of Oklahoma and had 2 two-year stretches of study at both the University of Munich and  University of Tubingen in Germany. Prof. Kirkland does work in Kant, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, and Africana Philosophy. His work focuses on Hegelian and Husserlian idealisms as well as on the modernism of the African-diasporic intellectual traditions. He is currently at work on a single-authored volume tentatively entitled Hegelian Idealism and the Black Atlantic.

Books:

Frank M. Kirkland, The 2003 W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture -- The Problem of the Color Line: Normative or Empirical; Evolving or Non-Evolving, Responses by Professors Rose Cherubin and Jeffrey Stewart, (First in a series of monographs based on the W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures at George Mason University, 2005), pp. 4-68. (See also Philosophia Africana, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 57-82.)

Bill E. Lawson and Frank M. Kirkland, eds., Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999).

Frank M. Kirkland, ed., Phenomenology -- East and West: Essays in Honor of J.N. Mohanty (Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1993).

Representative presentations currently and soon to include:

"How Did Hegel's Insights Influence the Views of Blacks on the Saint Domingue Revolution?" to be presented at the annual meeting of Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) to be held at Fordham University in New York City from 12 to 15 March 2012.

"Douglass & Du Bois: A 'Kirklandish' Rejoinder to Robert Gooding-Williams' In the Shadow of Du Bois" to be presented as commentary on said book in main program at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Washington, D.C., 30 December 2011.

"Hegel's Idealism, Africa and Saint Domingue" presented at the annual meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association to be held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 29 September through 2 October 2011. Also presented at the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy (SSAP) in New York City, 19 September 2011.

"Is an Existential Reading Sufficient in Frederick Douglass' Critique of Slavery?" presented at a symposium on Frederick Douglass at the American Philosophical Association's (APA) Central Division Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2011.

"Hegel's Idealism and the Saint Domingue Revolution" presented at a public lecture sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, February 2011.

"The Hegel-Black Atlantic Project" presented at the 7th Annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race hosted by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, October 2010.

"Hegel and Husserl on Rationality and Actuality: Are Shareable Meanings Shareable Reasons?" presented at a symposium in honor of J.N. Mohanty sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2010

"Africa and Hegelian Like-Mindedness: The Vanishing 'We' and 'We,' the Underdeveloped" presented at a public lecture to the Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy (SSAP) in New York, New York, March 2009.

Reviews:

Democracy' Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois by Lawrie Balfour (Oxford University Press) in Notre Dame Philosophical Review, November 2011.

A Short History of African Philosophy, 2nd ed., by Barry Hallen (Indiana University Press) in International Journal of African Historical Studies, October 2010.

Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Post-Racial Future by Emmanuel Eze (Routledge) in Notre Dame Philosophical Review, April 2002.

Representative publications currently include:

"How Would Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Be Relevant Today?" in Logos: The Journal of Modern Society and Culture (online), vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 2008). http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_7.1/kirkland.htm

“The Problem of the Color Line: Normative or Empirical; Evolving or Non-Evolving” in Philosophia Africana, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 57-82.http://proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=13143171&site=ehost-live

“Modernisms in Black” in A Companion to African-American Philosophy, Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman, eds., (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003), pp. 67-86.

“Enslavement, Moral Suasion, and Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass’ Answer to the Question—‘What is Enlightenment?’” in Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, Bill E. Lawson and Frank M. Kirkland, eds., (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999), pp. 243-310.

“Hegel’s Critique of Psychologism” in Phenomenology: East and West, Frank M. Kirkland, ed., (Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1993), pp. 218-41.

“Apperception and Combination: Some Kantian Problems” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 49, no. 3, March 1989, pp. 447-61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2107798