Benjamin Crowe is a Permanent Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University, where he has taught since 2016. Previously, he served as a faculty member in the Philosophy Department and Honors College at the University of Utah from 2004 to 2016. Crowe holds a B.A. from Hendrix College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Tulane University. His teaching focuses on the history of philosophy, including courses such as Great Philosophers (PH110), History of Ancient Philosophy (PH300), History of Modern Philosophy (PH310), and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (PH415). He also teaches classical Chinese philosophy (PH247) and courses on ethics and its history (PH150, PH350).

Crowe's scholarly work explores the intersection of ethics, religion, and philosophy of society in classical German philosophy. He has authored journal articles and book chapters on J.G. Fichte, translated and edited Fichte’s Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812) (SUNY Press, 2016), and co-edited a volume on Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre with Gabriel Gottlieb (SUNY Press, 2024). Crowe has published two books and a monograph on Martin Heidegger’s religious thought, including the recent Heidegger on Religion in Cambridge University Press’s Elements of the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger series (2025). His publications also include articles, reviews, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries on early German Romantics, F.H. Jacobi, J.G. Herder, Wilhelm Dilthey, Neo-Kantianism, Husserl, and religious naturalism in the Scottish Enlightenment. Since 2019, he has co-directed the North American Fichte Society with Gottlieb. Crowe contributes to the Jacobi-Wörterbuch Online and participates in a translation team for K.L. Reinhold’s writings (Cambridge University Press). His current research examines Fichte’s philosophy of community and skepticism in German philosophy of the 1780s and 1790s, focusing on Jacobi.

Professional Email: bcrowe@bu.edu