Rate My Professor William Mcdonald

As an internationally recognized Kierkegaard scholar, William McDonald has made significant contributions to the field through his editorial and authorial work. He co-edited the comprehensive six-tome series Kierkegaard’s Concepts (Routledge, 2013–2015), covering topics from Absolute to Writing. Notable chapters include “Aesthetic/Aesthetics,” “Anxiety,” “Philosophy/Philosophers,” “Demonic,” “Despair,” “Faith,” “Hope,” “Love,” “The Moment,” and “Music.” He authored influential encyclopedia entries on Søren Kierkegaard for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the Literary Encyclopedia. Furthermore, he produced the first English translation of Kierkegaard’s Prefaces: Light Reading For Certain Classes As The Occasion May Require, By Nicolaus Notabene (Florida State University Press, 1989). Other key publications feature “Sympathy for Dolores: Moral Consideration for Robots based on Virtue and Recognition” (2019), “Kierkegaard’s Demonic Boredom” (2009), and contributions to The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (2013) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism (2024). His scholarship has notably impacted studies in existentialism, continental philosophy, and philosophical psychology.