Benjamin Berger

Education

PhD, University of Warwick

MA, University of Warwick

BA, University of Illinois at Chicago

Benjamin Berger specializes in the history of modern European philosophy, with a focus on post-Kantian idealism and the philosophy of nature. He is the author of Schelling, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature (Routledge, 2024), co-author of The Schelling–Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801 (Edinburgh, 2020), and co-editor of The Schelling Reader (Bloomsbury, 2021). He has interests across a broad range of philosophical topics, and he teaches courses on metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of art, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of religion. He welcomes conversation with students about any and all things philosophical.

Dr. Berger thinks that one of the most powerful ways that each of us can become aware of our unique philosophical perspective is by engaging with texts from the history of philosophy, where we find ideas that, at first blush, appear very different from our own. On his view, it is in discovering ideas we love in those texts—as well as ideas we fundamentally oppose—that we acquire a more refined understanding of the individuals we are.