Naomi Fisher

Director, Catholic Studies Program (On leave, Spring 2026) and Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Naomi Fisher is Director of Catholic Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. She has broad interests in the history of philosophy and the interplay between that history and the history of Christianity. She specializes in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and his immediate successors, focusing particularly on personhood, freedom, and nature, and recently published a book titled Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802 (OUP, 2024). She also as a graduate degree in Physics from UC Davis and has teaching interests in the relationships among science, technology, and religion. She is on the executive board of National Catholic Studies Consortium. In Fall 2022 she taught a course for Catholic Studies titled “Platonism and Catholicism”.