Julian Young


Julian Padraic Young is an American philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University.
He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy.

Career

He specializes in Continental philosophy, philosophy of art, environmental philosophy, and philosophy of religion. Prior to moving to the United States, Professor Young taught at all levels at the universities of Auckland, Pittsburgh, Calgary and Tasmania, the following: Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge, Introduction to Theories of Human Nature, British Empiricism, Quine and Sellars, Wittgenstein, Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus. He has supervised and examined numerous MA and PhD theses at Auckland and throughout Australasia. He is the author of ten books, mostly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German philosophy. He has appeared on radio and television in Ireland, New Zealand and the US, and has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and Harper's Magazine.

Accusations of Plagiarism

In 2011, Mark Anderson, a professor at Belmont University, discovered that a significant amount of textual formulations and ideas in Young's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography were plagiarized from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate. In addition to "large-scale structural similarities", Anderson provides more than ten examples of Young's unethical academic practice. A group of scholars led by Mohan Matthen suggested that Young admit publicly that the Nietzsche book "contains a number of passages that are copied from an earlier biography by Curtis Cate". Young's response was reported by Professor Matthen: "Julian Young has now inserted into unsold copies of his book a list of Errata, an acknowledgement of Cate's biography and a list of changes to his text. We applaud his honourable gesture."

Books