Pauline Kleingeld#
Photo: Hielco Kuipers
| Membership Number: | 6444 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rug.nl/staff/pauline.kleingeld/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Professor of Philosophy, University of Groningen
- 2016 - 2020 Chair of the Department of Ethics & Social and Political Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen
- 2004 - 2010 Professor of Philosophy, Leiden University
- 2006-2008 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University
- 2008 Fellowship Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
- 2004 - 2005 Fellowship Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2001 - 2005 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
- 2000 - 2001 Fellowship Howard Foundation
- 1993 - 2001 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
- 1989 - 1993 Dissertation Fellowship, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (ZWO/NWO)
Fields of Scholarship
- Ethics
- History of Western philosophy
- Political philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Corresponding Fellow, British Academy
- 2022 Regular Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2022 Royal decoration, Knight in the order of the lion of the Netherlands
- 2020 Spinoza Prize (highest award in Dutch academia)
- 2018 Program Grant NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), ‘Universal Moral Laws’. Open Competition Humanities, 2019-2023. Sole applicant
- 2017 Consortium Grant, ‘Sustainable Cooperation’ (SCOOP, Gravitation programme), 2017-2026, co-applicant
- 2015 Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2013 Biennial Senior Scholar Book Prize of the North American Kant Society, for Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- 2011 Article selected, ‘Kant’s Second Thoughts on Race,’ for inclusion in commemorative issue of The Philosophical Quarterly
- 2010 Program Grant NWO, ‘Kant on Morality and Empirical Knowledge of Human Agency.’ Open Competition Humanities, 2011-2016, sole applicant
- 2009 Program Grant NWO, ‘Morality Beyond Illusions: Re-assessing the Philosophical Implications of Empirical Studies of Moral Agency.’ Open Competition Humanities, 2009-2013, sole applicant
- 2008 Fellowship Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
- 2007 Member, Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW)
- 2004 Fellowship Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, 2004 - 2005
- 2000 Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2000-2001
- 1999 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend
- 1995 Lilly Endowment Fellowship (for innovative course development)
- 1987 Fellow, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Goethe University Frankfurt, host Jürgen Habermas, 1987 - 1989
