Dr. Anthony K. Jensen

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Office: Siena 133
Email: Anthony.Jensen@providence.edu
Tel.: 401-865-2043

Office Hours (Fall 2012):
Mondays and Thursdays, 11:30-1:30pm

Brief Biography

Dr. Anthony K. Jensen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Editor of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies. Since receiving his doctorate from Emory University, he has been Term Assistant Professor at Xavier University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, and Gastforscher at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the German-American Fulbright Foundation. He received the City University of New York – Lehman College 2010 Research Award. He is a specialist in Late Modern Philosophy, with foci in Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Psychology, and Epistemology, and a concentration on figures like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Goethe, and the Neo-Kantians. External to his philosophical interests, he researches the History of Modern Germany, the History of Classical Philology, and Romanticism. His book, Nietzsche’s Philosophy of History, is contracted with Cambridge University Press.