Oliver Thorndike received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2009. His first book “Kant’s Transition Project and Late Philosophy. Connecting the Opus postumum and Metaphysics of Morals” was published with Bloomsbury in 2018. His current book project is entitled “A Philosophical Anthropology for the 21^st Century.”  

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

Freshmen Seminar
Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
18^th and 19^th Century Theories of Beauty, Art and Genius
History of Philosophy 
Contemporary Philosophy
E.T.A. Hoffmann, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms
Beethoven and the Philosophers of his Time 
Existentialism
“Evil” in philosophy, film, and literature