Ben Woodard is currently a fellow at the ICI Berlin. He received his PhD in Theory and Criticism from Western University in 2016. From 2017-2020 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the IPK at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic/continental divide in philosophy through the work of F.H. Bradley. Since 2020 Ben has lectured at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy mostly on the history, philosophy, and politics of the life sciences. In broad terms, his work focuses on the relationship between naturalism and idealism in the long 19th century. Ben also writes on science fiction and horror film and literature.


He is the author of numerous articles and three books: Slime Dynamics: Generation, Mutation and the Creep of Life (Zero, 2012), On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy (Punctum, 2013) and Schelling’s Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought (Edinburgh, 2019).

He is also a translator of French philosophy and in particular the work of Giles Châtelet. Ben is also a founding member of the philosophy collective P.S. which is based at the Performing Arts Forum (PAF) in St. Erme, France.