Editing Kai Nielsen (philosopher) (section)

== Teaching career ==
Nielsen taught at [[Hamilton College]] before getting hired at [[Amherst College]], where he taught for three years in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. After a meeting with [[Sidney Hook]] at Amherst, he was invited to join the philosophy department at [[New York University]], where he eventually became chair of the department. During the Vietnam War, he moved to the University of Calgary.<ref name=":1" />

Nielsen was a member of the [[Royal Society of Canada]]<ref name=":0" /> and a past president (in 1983) of the [[Canadian Philosophical Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Presidents|url=https://www.acpcpa.ca:443/cpages/presidents|access-date=2021-04-09|website=CPA-ACP|language=en}}</ref>

Nielsen was also one of the founding members of the ''[[Canadian Journal of Philosophy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian Journal of Philosophy|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Cambridge Core|language=en}}</ref>

In 1973 Nielsen was one of the signers of the [[Humanist Manifesto II]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Humanist Manifesto II |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020110719/http://www.americanhumanist.org/humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II |archive-date=2012-10-20}}</ref>

He wrote or edited over 40 books on topics such as [[Marxism]], [[metaphilosophy]] and ethical and political theory.<ref name=":0" />

In 2007, ''Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen'', edited by Michel Seymour and Matthias Fritsch, was published, with contributions from [[Anthony Kenny]], [[Nicholas Wolterstorff]], [[Richard Rorty]], and [[Steven Lukes]], among others. This book was published after a conference in honor of Nielsen was held in October 2003 at [[Concordia University]].

Nielsen died in April 2021 at the age of 94.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Department of Philosophy {{!}} University of Calgary|url=https://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/kai-nielsen|access-date=2021-04-09|website=phil.ucalgary.ca|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409002619/https://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/kai-nielsen|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-09|title=In Memoriam: Kai Nielsen|url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/memoriam-kai-nielsen|access-date=2021-04-12|website=News|language=en}}</ref>