#  Fellow-in-Residence Roey Reichert Explores Kant's Influence on Gellner's Social Theory 

 





May 27, 2025

 

 

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Current Fellow-in-Residence [Roey Reichert](https://www.ethics.harvard.edu/people/roey-reichert) has recently published an article in *Philosophy of the Social Sciences* that explores the impact of Immanuel Kant's philosophical anthropology on Ernest Gellner's social theory. By analyzing how Kant's defense of human agency against mechanical explanations of nature informed Gellner's key concepts, Reichert considers the ongoing relevance of a Kantian-Gellnerian perspective for the contemporary social sciences.

[Read the full article in the journal *Philosophy of the Social Sciences*.](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00483931251327325)