birth_place nickname article_title name occupation
newcastle , england bae paul w. franks
 paul walter franks scholar , writer , academic
paul w. franks

paul walter franks is a scholar , writer and professor of philosophy .
he graduated with his phd from harvard university in 1993 , his dissertation supervisor was stanley cavell .
franks ' dissertation , entitled `` kant and hegel on the esotericism of philosophy '' , won the emily and charles carrier prize for a dissertation in moral philosophy at harvard university .
he completed his b.a -lrb- first class -rrb- and m.a , in philosophy , politics and economics at balliol college , oxford .
prior to this , franks received his general education at the royal grammar school , newcastle , and studied classical rabbinic texts at gateshead talmudical college .
his primary areas of research and specialization are jewish philosophy , immanuel kant , german idealism , metaphysics , epistemology , the foundations of human sciences , and post-kantian approaches within analytic philosophy and continental philosophy .
he has taught at indiana university -lrb- bloomington -rrb- between 1996 to 2000 , university of notre dame from 2000 to 2004 , the university of chicago in 2003 , and the university of toronto from 2004 to 2011 .
franks has been faculty fellow at the jackman humanities institute , university of toronto ; brackenbury scholar at balliol college , oxford ; lady davis graduate research fellow at the hebrew university ; mrs. giles f. whiting dissertation fellow in the humanities at harvard university ; junior fellow of the michigan society of fellows ; and fellow of the american council of learned societies .
franks was appointed as the inaugural holder of the senator jerahmiel s. and carole s. grafstein chair in jewish philosophy at the university of toronto in 2008 .
he was appointed in 2011 to a senior position at yale university , in new haven , connecticut .
in december 2012 , franks gave a lecture entitled `` from indeterminacy to idealism '' at the opening of the forschungskolleg analytic german idealism at the university of leipzig .
