Karen Ng (philosopher)

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Karen Ng
Academic background
EducationNew School for Social Research (PhD)
ThesisThe Life of the Concept: Freedom and Form in Hegel's Logic (2012)
Doctoral advisorJ. M. Bernstein, Richard J. Bernstein, Frederick Neuhouser
Academic work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School or traditionGerman Idealism
InstitutionsVanderbilt University
Websitehttps://karen-ng.com/

Karen Ng is an associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.[1] From 2023 to 2025, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy of the University of Potsdam.[2]

Life and work

Karen was born in Hong Kong, and her family moved to Toronto when she was five years old.[3] She earned her B.A. from the University of Toronto, her M.A. from the University of Essex, and her Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research with the dissertation "The Life of Concept: Freedom and Form in Hegel's Logic" in 2012.[1]

Her 2020 work, Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic was the winner of Journal of the History of Philosophy (JHP) book prize in 2021,[1][4][5] as well as subject two book symposiums by first by JHP, containing reviews from Thomas Khurana,[6] Julia Peters,[7] and Christopher Yeomans,[8] followed by a response from Ng.[9] And the second symposium by Hegel Bulletin, containing reviews from Sebastian Rand[10] and Karen Koch,[11] also followed by a reply from Ng.[12] The book has also received reviews from Matı́as von dem Bussche,[13] Gerad Gentry,[14] Christoph Schuringa,[15] Clinton Tolley,[16] Stephen Houlgate,[17] Berker Basmaci,[18] Marina F. Bykova,[19] Eliza Starbuck Little,[20] Andrés Ortigosa,[21] Sebastian Richardson,[22] Emmanuel Chaput,[23] Jensen Suther,[24] Karl von der Luft,[25] Antoine Auvé,[26] Camilla Brenni,[27] Robert M. Wallace,[28] and Andrea Gambarotto.[29]

Publications

  • Ng, Karen (2020). Hegel's Concept of Life. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190947613.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-094761-3.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Karen Ng". Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  2. ^ "Biography". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  3. ^ "Oops..." www.apaonline.org. Archived from the original on 2020-11-03. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  4. ^ Ng, Karen; Stohlman-Vanderveen, Maryellen; Stohlman-Vanderveen, Karen Ng & Maryellen (2022-02-18). "Recently Published Book Spotlight: Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic | Blog of the APA". Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  5. ^ Weinberg, Justin (2021-12-20). "Ng Wins Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize - Daily Nous". dailynous.com. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  6. ^ Khurana, Thomas (2021). "This other life that knows itself as life: Comments on Karen Ng's Hegel's concept of life". European Journal of Philosophy. 29 (4): 1136–1144. doi:10.1111/ejop.12745. ISSN 1468-0378.
  7. ^ Peters, Julia (2021). "Life as ground—Variations on a theme: Comments on Karen Ng's Hegel's concept of life". European Journal of Philosophy. 29 (4): 1145–1151. doi:10.1111/ejop.12747. ISSN 1468-0378.
  8. ^ Yeomans, Christopher (2021). "The hidden lives of objects: Comments on Karen Ng's Hegel's concept of life". European Journal of Philosophy. 29 (4): 1152–1161. doi:10.1111/ejop.12748. ISSN 1468-0378.
  9. ^ Ng, Karen (2021). "On subjects, objects, and ground: Life as the form of judgment". European Journal of Philosophy. 29 (4): 1162–1175. doi:10.1111/ejop.12749. ISSN 1468-0378.
  10. ^ Rand, Sebastian (December 2021). "The Logic of Life: Apriority, Singularity and Death in Ng's Vitalist Hegel". Hegel Bulletin. 42 (3): 430–453. doi:10.1017/hgl.2021.21. ISSN 2051-5367.
  11. ^ Koch, Karen (December 2021). "Purposiveness, Intelligibility and Kant's Scepticism: Reconsidering Ng's Account of Hegel's Response to Kant". Hegel Bulletin. 42 (3): 416–429. doi:10.1017/hgl.2021.20. ISSN 2051-5367.
  12. ^ Ng, Karen (December 2021). "What Is a Logical Concept of Life? Reply to Critics". Hegel Bulletin. 42 (3): 454–471. doi:10.1017/hgl.2021.22. ISSN 2051-5367.
  13. ^ Bussche, Matı́as von dem (2020-12-30). "Ng, Karen. Hegel's Concept of Life. Self-consciousness, Freedom, Logic, Oxford: OUP. 2020". Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofía (in Spanish). 1 (15): 177–179. doi:10.69967/07194773.v1i15.294. ISSN 0719-4773.
  14. ^ Gentry, Gerad. "Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic, Oxford University Press, 2020, 319pp., $85.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780190947613".
  15. ^ Schuringa, Christoph (October 2021). "Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic by Karen Ng (Oxford University Press, 2020)". Philosophy. 96 (4): 683–686. doi:10.1017/S0031819121000231. ISSN 0031-8191.
  16. ^ Tolley, Clinton (2023-11-23). "Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic , by Karen Ng". Mind. 132 (528): 1151–1160. doi:10.1093/mind/fzab095. ISSN 0026-4423.
  17. ^ Houlgate, Stephen (2022-04-01). "Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic". The Philosophical Review. 131 (2): 226–230. doi:10.1215/00318108-9554743. ISSN 0031-8108.
  18. ^ Basmaci, Berker (2021-05-21). "Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic". Idealistic Studies. 51 (1): 103–107. doi:10.5840/idstudies20215111.
  19. ^ Bykova, Marina F. (2023). "Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic by Karen Ng (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 61 (3): 527–528. doi:10.1353/hph.2023.a902888. ISSN 1538-4586.
  20. ^ Little, Eliza Starbuck (April 2022). "Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-0190947613 (hbk). Pp. 336. £55". Hegel Bulletin. 43 (1): 153–156. doi:10.1017/hgl.2022.4. ISSN 2051-5367.
  21. ^ Ortigosa, Andrés (2021-06-16). "Ng, Karen. Hegel´s Concept of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 319 pp". THÉMATA. Revista de Filosofía (63): 416–420. doi:10.12795/themata.2021.i63.23. ISSN 2253-900X.
  22. ^ Richardson, Sebastian (2021). "Karen Ng, "Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic."". Philosophy in Review. 41 (2): 86–88. doi:10.7202/1078058ar. ISSN 1206-5269.
  23. ^ "Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life | CSCP / SCPC". c-scp.org. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  24. ^ "Jensen Suther — Back to Life? The Persistence of Hegel's Idealism (A Response to Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic)". b2o: boundary 2 online. 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  25. ^ von der Luft, Karl (2021-09-24). "Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic". Philosophy Today. 65 (4): 985–987. doi:10.5840/philtoday2021654424.
  26. ^ Auvé, Antoine (2023-09-08). "Karen NG, Hegel's concept of life. Self-consciousness, freedom, logic, New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, 319 p." Revue de métaphysique et de morale (in French). 119 (3): 451–453. doi:10.3917/rmm.233.0451. ISSN 0035-1571.
  27. ^ "Bulletin de littérature hégélienne XXXI (2021)". Archives de philosophie (in French). 84 (4): 141–180. 2021-10-22. doi:10.3917/aphi.844.0141. ISSN 0003-9632.
  28. ^ Wallace, Bob (robert M. ) (2020-06-26). "Philosophical Mysticism blog: Life, Freedom, and Infinity: A review discussion of Karen Ng, _Hegel's Concept of Life_ (Oxford, 2020)". Philosophical Mysticism blog. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  29. ^ Gambarotto, Andrea (2021). "Review of Hegel?s Concept of Life. Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic". Hegel-Studien. 55: 274–277. ISSN 0073-1587. JSTOR 27302997.
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