

Woods Professor emeritus, and at Indiana University since 2008.

Life and career īorn in Seattle, WA, he has held professorships at Cornell University, Yale University, Stanford University, where he is now Ward W. In addition to popularising and clarifying the ethical thought of Kant, Wood has also mounted arguments against the validity of trolley problems in moral philosophy. Woods Professor, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and has held professorships and visiting appointments at numerous universities in the United States and Europe.

One of the world’s foremost Kant scholars, he is the Ruth Norman Halls professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Ward W. Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb FichteĪllen William Wood (born October 26, 1942) is an American philosopher specializing in the work of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism, with particular interests in ethics and social philosophy.
