Eric Ritter

Eric Ritter received his PhD from the Vanderbilt University Philosophy Department in 2019. He has been a visiting doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago Philosophy Department, in 2019, and the Free University of Berlin, in 2015-2016. In the summer of 2020, he will be a research fellow at the Center for Cinepoetics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Eric also works with both governmental and non-profit organizations focused on meaningful justice reform, including Raphah Institute.

Research Interests

American Philosophy/American Philosophies

19th and 20th Century European Philosophy

Social and Political Philosophy

Aesthetics

Critical Race Theory

Representative Publications

“Emerson’s Abolitionist Perfectionism.” Philosophy and Social Criticism. Forthcoming.

“Stanley Cavell and the Everyday of Thinking.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 35.1, 1-26 (2021). Lead Article.

“Thinking with Cavell about (his) Death.” Conversations: A Journal of Cavellian Studies, vol. 7, 145-153 (2020).

“Drone Warfare and the Principle of Discrimination.” In Cambridge Handbook of the Just War. Edited by Larry May with assistant editors Shannon Fyfe and Eric Ritter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.  

“The Industry of Mass Incarceration.” Critical Quarterly 62, no. 2 (2020): 124-129.