Oliver Thorndike received his Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He also holds an M.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His first book Kant’s Transition Project and Late Philosophy. Connecting the Opus postumum and Metaphysics of Morals was published with Bloomsbury in 2018. He is currently working on his second book, The Critical Humanities: Transforming Self and Society.

In 2023, he was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Research Accelerator Grant for his research on scientific reductionism and personal identity. Building on this work, he wrote a paper titled Is There a Need for a Critical Humanities of Psychedelics?, which explores these themes within the context of psychedelic-assisted therapy and philosophy. This paper is currently under review.

Links to his two latest articles can be found here: 

• Kant’s “Theory of Music” (2021) Con-Textos Kantianos
• Strange Bedfellows: MacIntyre and Kant on Emotivism. A Modern Response (2023) SGIR Review

Among the courses he is regularly teaching at the Liberal Arts Department are:

• Philosophy of Art 
• Existentialism 
• Contemporary Philosophy
• “Evil” in philosophy, film, and literature

Outside of academia, he enjoys participating in triathlons and sailing.