Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology

Anik Waldow is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. She mainly works in early modern philosophy and has published widely on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity, scepticism and associationist theories of thought and language, and the influence of artifice and nature in the enlightenment debate. She is the author of the book David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds(Continuum, 2009), and co-edited Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Nature and Norms in Thought (Springer, 2013)Nigel DeSouza is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He works on the philosophy of Herder, early modern philosophy, and on contemporary ethics. He has published articles on Herder's metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and moral philosophy, as well as on the foundations of ethical agency. His articles have appeared in The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Intellectual History Review, Herder Yearbook, and Ethical Theory andMoral Practice.