philosophy

The Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University offers a Master of Arts in Military Ethics—the first degree of its kind in the nation. This program can be completed in a year and also is open to CWRU undergraduate philosophy students via the Integrated Graduate Studies program. The ...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, will soon release his book The Wind ~ An Unruly Living with Punctum Books. An excerpt from the text was published by the Cleveland Review of Books. Bendik-Keymer ponders the ques...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, wrote a piece titled "This Conversation Never Happened" for Tikkun. Bendik-Keymer examines a lack of accountability in modern society and the way this phenomenon has transferred ...

In an op-ed in The Plain Dealer, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics, argued for why he believes President Donald Trump is more accurately labeled as an authoritarian arbitrarian, rather than a facist. His op-ed, titled “President Donald Trump is an arb...

Insight suggests ways to communicate with people who ignore evidence that contradicts cherished beliefs Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain the extreme per...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics, wrote an op-ed for e-flux conversations titled “Democracy as Relationship.” In his piece, he explained how socially engaged art is an effective form of protest and how it can “show people as people living, working, a...

Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, wrote a book titled Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time, which was recently published by Punctum. The art book features a series of askesis, or "spiritual exercises,” and many colo...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics, wrote an op-ed for Hyperallergic about how reconsidering the aesthetics of protests could lead to more effective outcomes. In his article, titled “Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Protest,” he explained the three fact...