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Guyer grew up on Long Island, New York, and attended public schools there, graduating from Lynbrook High School in 1965. He graduated ''summa cum laude'' from [[Harvard College]] in 1969, where he studied in the Departments of Philosophy and German; his Ph.D. in [[Philosophy]] was also taken at [[Harvard University]], with a dissertation directed by [[Stanley Cavell]].<ref name="auto">{{cite book|url=https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/p/pguyer_cv.pdf?dt=571115106|title=Guyer CV}}</ref> Guyer joined the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1983 as a tenured faculty member, where he subsequently rose to the rank of Professor of Philosophy and F.R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities. Prior to moving to the University of Pennsylvania, Guyer taught at the [[University of Pittsburgh]] from 1973 to 1978, and the [[University of Illinois, Chicago]] from 1978 to 1983. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, and the [[University of Michigan]].<ref>https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/p/pguyer_cv.pdf?dt name=571115106<"auto"/ref>

Guyer was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He has also been a Research Prize Winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and a Daimler Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.<ref>https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/p/pguyer_cv.pdf?dt name=571115106<"auto"/ref>

Guyer has written ninea dozen books on Kant and Kantian themes, and has edited and translated a number of Kant's works into English. In addition to his work on Kant, Guyer has published on many other figures in the history of philosophy, including [[John Locke|Locke]], [[David Hume|Hume]], [[Hegel]], [[Schopenhauer]], and others. Guyer's ''Kant and The Claims of Knowledge'' ([[Cambridge University Press]]) is widely considered to be one of the most significant works in Kant scholarship. Recent works by Guyer include ''Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume'' ([[Princeton University Press]]), and ''The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason'' ([[Cambridge University Press]]). More recently, he has published ''Virtues of Freedom: Essays on Kant's Moral Philosophy'' (2016), ''Kant on the Rationality of Morality'' (2019), and ''Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant'' (2020).

His other areas of specialty include the history of philosophy and aesthetics. His three-volume work ''A History of Modern Aesthetics'' was published by Cambridge University Press in February 2014. In 2021, Cambridge published '' A Philosopher Looks at Architecture.''<ref name="Guyer's UPenn page">[{{Cite web |url=http://www.phil.upenn.edu/faculty/guyer/ |title=Guyer's university page] |access-date=2009-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727191708/http://www.phil.upenn.edu/faculty/guyer/ |archive-date=2011-07-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Guyer was President of the American Society for Aesthetics in 2011–13.<ref name="UPenn announcement">[{{Cite web|url=http://www.phil.upenn.edu/node/68366 |title=Official UPenn announcement of Guyer's appointment]}}</ref> Guyer was also President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2011-122011–12.

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