About

The Idealist Society of North America (ISNA) is an international group of academics, scholars, and researchers dedicated to cultivating a space for the study of idealist philosophy broadly construed. ISNA’s mission is to intertwine the wider tradition of idealism from Plato to the present with this tradition’s instantiation in the fields of 18 th and 19 th century German Idealism and 19 th and 20 th century British and American Idealism. We view these movements as particularly important moments in the idealist tradition but seek to establish the broader continuity of these movements with the idealist tradition as a whole. We are committed to no single definition of idealism, and instead embrace the vicissitudes of the idealist tradition in full. To advance research into the idealist tradition and its most prominent proponents and
critics, ISNA seeks to bring together scholars across the world through workshops and conferences. ISNA is particularly interested in acting as a workshop space for developing lines of idealist research in order to advocate for the contemporary relevance of all forms of idealism.
We hope to provide a venue for establishing conversation across generations of philosophers by highlighting the work of both junior and senior academics. The membership of ISNA is open to everyone, and all events will be open to the public at large.

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Meet ISNA’s Executive Committee

Christopher Satoor

Christopher Satoor is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Humanities at York University. Christopher’s research centers around classical German philosophy of the 18th and 19th-century and the German idealist philosophies of Kant, Maimon, Reinhold, and Fichte, with a special concentration on Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

Benjamin Norris

Benjamin Norris has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute (SUNY Press, 2022) as well as a number of articles on the relation between German Idealism and Contemporary Continental Theory. He currently teaches at Rowan University. 

Paolo Camporese

Paolo Camporese did graduate work at McMaster University. He has interests in the anglophone traditions of British Idealism, pragmatism, and  contemporary American Hegelianism.

Jasmin Özel

Jasmin Özel works on topics in the philosophy of mind, logic, and mathematics, and on the history of Hegel’s reception in the United States. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Siegen University.