Room: 1413HW
Phone: (212) 772-4970
Ext: 1-4970
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5:45-7:30pm; Thursdays 7:00-8:15pm; or by appointment
E-mail: fkirklan@hunter.cuny.edu

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

Joined the Hunter philosophy faculty in 1985. Previously taught at the University of Oklahoma and had 2 two-year stretches of study at the University of Munich and the University of Tubingen. 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.

Representative publications 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).

“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.

“Modernisms in Black” in A Companion to African-American Philosophy, T. Lott and J. 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, B. E. Lawson and F.M. Kirkland, eds., (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999), pp. 243-310.

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

“Apperception and Combination: Some Kantian Problems” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. xxix, no. 3, March 1989, pp. 447-61.