Benjamin Berger

I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Philosophy Program in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Hartford. I previously taught philosophy as Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College (2022-2023), Haverford College (2017-2019 and 2020-2022) and Kent State University (2019-2020). I received my PhD from the University of Warwick, where I studied under the supervision of Stephen Houlgate.

I specialize in late 18th and early 19th century idealism and the philosophy of nature. I am the author of Schelling, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature: From Matter to Spirit (Routledge, 2024). With Daniel Whistler, I authored The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and edited The Schelling Reader (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Generally speaking, my philosophical interests lie in metaphysics and its history. I am especially interested in exploring ambitious metaphysical programs that tend to be dismissed by more recent philosophers in both “analytic” and “continental” traditions.

Pictured throughout website: sculptures by Eduardo Chillida