John LysakerWilliam R. Kenan Professor of Philosophy

PhD, Vanderbilt University, 1995

Current research projects include the nature of friendship, a theory of artworks, the nature of schizophrenia and the role of self-experience therein, Cavell and music, and negative capability and clinical aptitude.

Ethics, philosophical psychology, the philosophy of art, and 19th & 20th century continental and American philosophy

Author of

• Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude (Chicago, 2023)
• Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought (Chicago, 2018)
• Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports (Oxford, 2018)
• After Emerson (Indiana, 2017)
• Emerson and Self-Culture (Indiana, 2008)
• You Must Change Your Life: Poetry and the Birth of Sense (Penn State, 2002)

Co-author of Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (Oxford, 2008)

Co-editor of Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship (Indiana, 2010)

Recent articles have appeared in:

• BMC Psychiatry
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Journal of Speculative Philosophy
• European Journal of American Studies