Michael Pendlebury

Michael Pendlebury is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at North Carolina State University, from which he retired in December 2023 after twenty years as Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (BAHons, MA in Philosophy) and Indiana University, Bloomington (MA, PhD in Philosophy, MA in Linguistics). He has served on the philosophy faculty at Illinois State University, the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, and for twenty years at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was Professor and Head of Philosophy when he moved to NC State in January 2004. He was editor of the journal Philosophical Papers from 1986 to 1998. He has published articles on a wide range of philophical issues and is currently working on Kant's theoretical philosophy. His book, Making Sense of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: A Philosophical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), draws on an undergraduate course on the Critique that he has taught on at least twenty occasions since 1989.