Yitzhak Y. Melamed

I am a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. I hold the Charlotte Bloomberg Chair in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins. I have been awarded the Fulbright, Mellon, and American Academy for Jewish Research Fellowships. I have also won the ACLS Burkhardt (2011), NEH (2010), and Humboldt (2011) fellowships for my forthcoming book on Spinoza and German Idealism. I study foundational questions, which I aspire to approach with both philosophical and historical rigor. In particular, I am interested in well-argued views that are commonly treated as “counter-intuitive”; such views, I think, may help us challenge our own well-fortified beliefs, force us to motivate what we deem to be obvious, and reveal our conceptual blind spots.