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 received the “Johns Hopkins University Research Accelerator Grant” for his work on Scientific Reductionism and Personal Identity in 2023. Building on this research, he is currently working on two papers in the context of psychedelic-assisted therapy and philosophy:

1. “Is there a need for a critical humanities of psychedelics?”
2. “Exploring Transformative Experiences through Mystic-Type Encounters
   in Art and Psychedelics: Ego-Dissolution, Autobiographical Insights, and Philosophical Implications. Case Study Robert Musil’s ‘Die Amsel’.”

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.