West Germany, where he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. He returned to the United States in 1990 to take up a professorship at Indiana University Bloomington, where he remained until 2001. During his tenure at Indiana, he spent time teaching at Yale University. He joined Syracuse University in 2001, where he remains as of 2017. He also taught at Harvard University during the spring of 2002. Beiser is notable amongst English-language scholars for his defense of the metaphysical aspects of German idealism (e.g. Naturphilosophie), both in their centrality to any historical understanding of German idealism, as well as their continued relevance to contemporary philosophy. Works Monographs Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford University Press. 2018. David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford University Press. 2020. Johann Friedrich Herbart: Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford University Press. 2022 Edited works References External links Faculty page at Syracuse University "Diotima's Child", an interview in 3:16 Magazine, first published 2012-09-21. 1949 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics American expatriates in Germany Harvard University faculty Indiana University faculty Philosophers from Colorado Philosophers from Connecticut Philosophers from Indiana Philosophers from Massachusetts Shimer College alumni Syracuse University faculty University of Colorado faculty Yale University faculty Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany