Thomas A. McCarthy
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Thomas McCarthy (born 1940) is John Shaffer Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at
Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern in 1985, he taught for four years at
Munich University and for thirteen years at
Boston University. After retiring from Northwestern in 2006, he served for three years as William H. Orrick Visiting Professor at
Yale University. Over the course of his academic career, McCarthy's work was supported by grants and fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the
American Council of Learned Societies, and the
Guggenheim Foundation. Early in his career he wrote and taught principally in the
philosophy of logic and
mathematics and then in the
philosophy of the social sciences. Subsequently, and for the bulk of his career, he worked in the general area of
critical,
social and
political theory, and in particular on the work of
Jürgen Habermas, of which he is widely regarded as one of the foremost English-language interpreters. During his last decade of teaching, McCarthy focused on theoretical issues in the history of
racist and
imperialist thought, and particularly on their interweaving in theories of
progress and development.
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