Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer
Professor, Faculty Senate Vice-Chair
Contact
bendik-keymer@case.edu
216.368.3563
Clark Hall 310
Fridays 12-4PM with some exceptions
https://sites.google.com/case.edu/bendikkeymer/
Other Information
Classes:
Afterlife
Becoming Oneself
Climate Justice
Decolonization
Education, Freedom, and Equality
Good Relationships
Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
Introduction to Philosophy: As an Ocean
Moral Character
People and Planet
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2002
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Philosophy, Yale University, 1993
Research: Planetary justice, political imagination, good relationships
Expertise: Mass extinction, Anthropocene studies, decolonization, multi-species justice, wonder, interpersonal & moral relations
About
“I wish I was a mole in the ground.”
~ An anonymous, late 19th century song of the same name
“Scholarship has to exemplify a love for each other, not just a love for an idea.”
~ Linda Tuhiwai Smith, June 30th, 2020, Massey University
Born in 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut to Esther Ann Bendik and David King Keymer, I live in Shaker Heights, Ohio with Misty Elaine Morrison and our children, Emet Aql Bendik-Keymer and Ellery Abbie Ray Morrison. I acknowledge the indigenous lands ceded by the Treaty of Greenville (1795), subsequently violated by the U.S.A. A graduate of New Hartford High School, Yale College, and University of Chicago, and ancien élève of the Lycée Corneille, Rouen, I work in the philosophy department at Case Western Reserve University as Professor of Philosophy. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, both my biological grandfather and my adoptive granddad on my father’s side had scholarships to attend Western Reserve University but were unable to attend due to the Depression. My mother was the first person in her entire family to attend college and the only to receive a four-year degree.