[2] While attending Westmont College in the late 1970s, Palmquist worked as a part-time youth minister, a job that helped him realize that, instead of becoming a pastor, his real calling was to be a university teacher.

[3] Shortly after starting his doctoral studies at Oxford University in October 1980, he realized his calling was to be a philosopher.

In a 1998 interview with the South China Morning Post, Palmquist mentioned his desire to move philosophical practice into the marketplace.

[26] The Society is an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association[27] and organizes symposiums, conferences, and various events in Hong Kong related to Kantian studies.

[28][29] Prior to the setting up the Hong Kong Kant Society, Palmquist organized Asia’s first major conference on Kantian scholarship in 2009, the Kant in Asia Conference, whose keynote speakers were Patricia Kitcher, Chung-ying Cheng, and Günter Wolfhart.