Karin Nisenbaum

Assistant Professor

Philosophy

kanisenb@syr.edu

Teaching

Fall: Kant & German Idealism

Spring: Intro to Ethics & Kantian and Post-Kantian Ethics

Kant, German Idealism, and 19th & 20th Century Jewish Thought

For the Love of Metaphysics: Nihilism and the Conflict of Reason from Kant to Rosenzweig

For the Love of Metaphysics: Nihilism and the Conflict of Reason from Kant to Rosenzweig , by Karin Nisenbaum, Oxford University Press (October 17, 2018), 296pp., ISBN-13: 978-0190680640

Boston College, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2020–2021

Colgate University, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2016–2020

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mandel Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholion Center, 2014–2016

University of Denver, Visiting Scholar, Center for Judaic Studies, 2013–2014

Colorado College, Visiting Instructor, Philosophy Department, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014

Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Advanced Researchers 2019–2022
Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers 2014–2016 (declined)
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme, October 2012–September 2013

University of Toronto, Ph.D. Philosophy, 2014
Dissertation: For the Love of Metaphysics
Committee: Paul Franks (advisor), Sergio Tenenbaum, Ulrich Schlösser, Robert Gibbs.
She received her MA from University College Dublin.
She got her BA from University of Chicago.