Philosophy

Bernard Reginster is Professor of Philosophy and the Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology. He studied music in the Académies of Uccle and Bouillon (Belgium), and philosophy and psychology at the University of Louvain (Belgium). He also studied philosophy at the University of Münster (Germany), and received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

His research focuses primarily on ethics and moral psychology in 19^th and 20^th century European philosophy, and on philosophical issues arising from psychoanalytic theory. Along with numerous articles, he has published two books, The Affirmation of Life (Harvard University Press, 2006) and The Will to Nothingness (Oxford University Press, 2021), and another, The Aim of Revenge is under contract (Cambridge University Press). 

He has received fellowships from the Princeton University Center for Human Value, the National Humanities Center, the Brown Cogut Institute for the Humanities, and the Erikson Institute at the Austen Riggs Center, and he was awarded the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities at Brown University. Most recently, he was the John N. Findlay Visiting Professor at Boston University for 2023-24.