Jasper Hopkins, PhD

Jasper Hopkins received his B.A. degree in philosophy (1958) from Wheaton College, and his M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1963) degrees in philosophy from Harvard University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where he first came in 1970. Prior thereto he taught at Case Institute of Technology (now Case-Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He spent three nonconsecutive years engaged in post-doctoral research in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale, two other years in Munich at the Grabmann Institut für Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, three months in Padua at the Istituto di Storia della Filosofia, and an academic year in Rome at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana.

During the academic year 1981-82 he was a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Graz (Austria); likewise, during the winter semester of 1986-87 he was a visiting professor at the University of Munich. Professor Hopkins is the author or translator of some 24 books in the field of Medieval philosophy. He has held research fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was elected to membership in the international wissenschaftlicher Beirat of the Cusanus Society in Germany. He is a consulting editor for Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Cusanus-Gesellschaft.

In May, 1990 Hopkins received an Associate of Applied Science degree from the College of St. Catherine/St. Mary's Campus (Minneapolis). He became a registered nurse in the same year and a certified emergency nurse in April, 1992. Thereafter he has also worked in post-coronary care units in telemetry (12-lead EKG monitoring) and in long-term care with patients suffering from head injury and neurological impairments. Not surprisingly, he teaches medical ethics in the Department of Philosophy and is member of the graduate faculty for the minor in biomedical ethics, and has directed dissertations on topics ranging from Heraclitus, to medical ethics, to the hermeneutics of history. Jasper Hopkins's webpage.

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