Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, 2005
M.A., Philosophy, San Diego State University, 2000
A.B., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Prior Appointments
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, 2016-2017
Visiting Professor, Xiamen University, June 2015
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, 2012-2016
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, 2009-2012
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kenyon College, 2005-2009
Biography
DR. CHRIS YEOMANS is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Riverside in 2005 before joining the Purdue faculty in 2009. He is the author of three monographs, Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency, The Expansion of Autonomy: Hegel's Pluralistic Philosophy of Action, and The Politics of German Idealism: Law & Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century (all from Oxford University Press). His work has been supported by the Purdue Provost’s Faculty Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline (history), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
