Kenley R. Dove
Kenley Royce Dove was a professor of philosophy at State University of New York at Purchase.
Life and works
Dove received his BA from St. Olaf College in 1958 and his MA from Yale University in 1960. He received his PhD from Yale in 1965 with the dissertation on "Toward an ''Interpretation of Hegel's Phanomenologie Des Geistes", for which he received comments and suggestions from Herbert Marcuse and Quentin Lauer.Along with Richard Dien Winfield, William Maker and Stephen Houlgate, Dove is said to defend a 'presuppositionless' and 'non-foundational' reading of Hegel's Logic''.
Dove notably influenced Andreas Esheté during his undergraduate studies at Williams College. Esheté subsequently followed Dove to Yale University, where Dove supervised his doctoral dissertation in 1970. In later years, Dove publicly defended Esheté against online attacks in the Addis Journal.