Lukas Bacho

 Lukas Bacho is a first-year Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, working in philosophy of religion. His research focuses on “the other” as conceived in Western modernity, especially by thinkers associated with German Idealism and its legacies (phenomenology, existentialism, etc.). Lukas’s primary questions include: who the other is; what ethical claims the other makes; how such claims may be satisfied; and the extent to which such claims are religious, secular, neither, or both. As such, his work deals mainly with conceptual foundations, but extends to contemporary issues "downstream" of these concerns, including refugee policy, homelessness, environmentalism, and activism on behalf of all of the above. 

 Lukas also has methodological interests in the Continental-analytic divide and antagonisms between philosophy and religion. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale.