# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allen-w-wood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:40:50.896Z

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name: "Allen W. Wood"
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description: "Allen William Wood is an American philosopher specializing in the work of Immanuel Kant and German idealism, with particular interests in ethics and social philosophy. One of the world's foremost Kant scholars, he is the Ruth Norman Halls professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor, emeritus, at Stanford University, and before that a professor at Cornell University across parts of four decades. He has also held professorships and visiting appointments at several other universities in the United States and Europe. In addition to popularising and clarifying the ethical thought of Kant, Wood has also mounted arguments against the validity of trolley problems in moral philosophy."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump