Irad Kimhi

Irad Kimhi is a professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 2012. He is best known for his book Thinking and Being, published by Harvard University Press in 2018, which argues that thinking and being are different manifestations of the same capacity, challenging Frege's separation of logical and psychological laws of thought. His research spans philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, and he is recognized for teaching courses on topics such as unhappiness that connect poetic and philosophical conceptions of negation, nonbeing, and consciousness.