philosophy

Laura Hengehold, professor in the Department of Philosophy, will give a Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Hengehold will present “Kafka’s Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa.” About the…

For the blog of the American Philosophical Association, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, wrote “Philosophy in the contemporary world: How to disagree, or experiments in social construction.” In the piece, he…

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, wrote an op-ed for Public Seminar that examines the impact that both words and silence have had in recent politics and social activism. In the piece, “How to do things without…

In a recent op-ed for e-flux conversations, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, discussed the relationship that artists have with accountability. His piece, titled “Art’s plain art of living,” addressed such…

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…

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…

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…

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,…