ABSTRACT
Stephan Körner, JurDr, PhD, FBA was born in Czechoslovakia and was educated at Charles’ University, Prague and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was Professor of Philosophy at Bristol University 1952–79 and at Yale University 1970–84. His interests in, and contributions to, philosophy are wideranging. Few students of philosophy will have missed his celebrated study of Kant (Penguin Books, 1955). Amongst his many other distinguished writings are The Philosophy of Mathematics, Experience and Theory, Experience and Conduct, Metaphysics: Its Structure and Function. Who's Who lists Stephan Körner's recreation as ‘walking’. Readers of the following interview will discover that he has vigorously traversed an extensive and fascinating philosophical landscape.
