Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer

Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer is a Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, serving as Faculty Senate Vice-Chair. His departmental affiliation is the Department of Philosophy, where he teaches courses including Climate Justice, Decolonization, and Good Relationships.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Chicago, 2002
• B.A. in Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude), Yale University, 1993

Bendik-Keymer's research centers on planetary justice, political imagination, and the dynamics of good relationships. His expertise spans mass extinction, Anthropocene studies, decolonization, multi-species justice, wonder, and interpersonal and moral relations. He emphasizes scholarship as a form of love for each other, not just for ideas, reflecting his commitment to relational ethics in academic practice.

He teaches diverse undergraduate philosophy courses such as Afterlife, Becoming Oneself, Education, Freedom, and Equality, Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, Introduction to Philosophy: As an Ocean, Moral Character, and People and Planet.