ZACHARY ISROW
Zachary Isrow, PhD
About Me
Zachary Isrow is Assistant Department Chair of Humanities and an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Beacon College. Born in Germany, he earned his BA from Aurora University in Philosophy, a Masters from University of Chicago, and a PhD in Humanities (Philosophy and Anthropology) from Alma Mater Europaea. He is finishing a second PhD in Behavioral Economics at Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu. He is the author of many articles and chapters, and his first book, The Spectricity of Humanness was published in 2022 with DeGruyter. He is currently working on a second book focusing on future-oriented ethics. In his academic work, he is concerned most primarily with the ontological foundations of humanness and the implications of contemporary realisms on our understanding of what makes us human. Just as prominent are his creative pursuits as a composer. His first musical, Raven’s Stars, for which he composed the music, and co-wrote the lyrics and script premiered in Chicago in March 2023. He is currently working on the scripts and scores of two animated films as well as another musical.
If you would like to contact me, please email me here:
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If you would like to contact me, please email me here:
[email protected]
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Research, Teaching, and Supervision
Research Interests: Philosophical Anthropology, Continental Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of Science (esp. Cosmology), Human Rights, Asian Philosophy (esp. Daoism)
Teaching Interests: Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics
Supervision areas:
Research Collaboration:
I often collaborate with colleagues and enjoy many different kinds of projects, due to my varied research interests. If you would like to discuss a possible research collaboration, please contact me (directly at [email protected]) if your interests fit into one of the below categories (due to my own commitments, I can only entertain collaborative projects which fall into these areas):
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Teaching Interests: Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics
Supervision areas:
- Philosophical Anthropology/Philosophy of Culture/Philosophy of Social Science
- Ontology (esp. Object-Oriented Ontology and Spectral Ontology)
- Continental Philosophy/German Philosophy (esp. Kant, German Idealism, and Heidegger)
- Normative Ethics
- Aesthetics
- Asian Philosophy (esp. Taoism and Buddhism)
Research Collaboration:
I often collaborate with colleagues and enjoy many different kinds of projects, due to my varied research interests. If you would like to discuss a possible research collaboration, please contact me (directly at [email protected]) if your interests fit into one of the below categories (due to my own commitments, I can only entertain collaborative projects which fall into these areas):
- German Philosophy (esp. Kant or Heidegger)
- Philosophical Anthropology (Broadly)
- Philosophy of Science (Broadly)
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Publications
Books
2022 The Spectricity of Humanness. Berlin: DeGruyter.
Articles
2017 “On the Future of Art” in The Journal of Arts and Humanities, Vol.6 No.6
2017 “Moral ‘Oughts’ and Pragmatic ‘Bests’: How ‘Right’ Actions are Composites”, Published in the Conference Proceedings from the 5th International Scientific Conference All About People: Interdisciplinarity, Transnationality, and Building Bridges
2021 “Political Theology Without Religion” in Journal of Humanities and Social Science Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1
2021 “Paradoxical Education: Learning to Unlearn What We Think We Have Learned” in World Journal of Education and Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 3
Books
2022 The Spectricity of Humanness. Berlin: DeGruyter.
Articles
2017 “On the Future of Art” in The Journal of Arts and Humanities, Vol.6 No.6
2017 “Moral ‘Oughts’ and Pragmatic ‘Bests’: How ‘Right’ Actions are Composites”, Published in the Conference Proceedings from the 5th International Scientific Conference All About People: Interdisciplinarity, Transnationality, and Building Bridges
2021 “Political Theology Without Religion” in Journal of Humanities and Social Science Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1
2021 “Paradoxical Education: Learning to Unlearn What We Think We Have Learned” in World Journal of Education and Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 3