Professor Heisenberg is a specialist in 19th and 20th century German Philosophy. Having earned his PhD from Columbia in 2019, his work has appeared in journals such as the British Journal of the History of Philosophy, the European Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry, and the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, as well as in many edited collections and anthologies. He was a Fulbright Scholar, and has received fellowships from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation, the Max Weber Program and from Columbia University. His book, The Economy in German Idealism, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Selected Publications

2026    “Hegel on Family Property in the Rational State,” British Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 no. 3: 455-473.     

2026    “The Use of History in Fichte’s Closed Commercial State,” Fichte Studien 54. No. 2: 457-473.

2025    “Goethe’s Faust and the Philosophy of Money,” Inquiry 68 no. 7: 2057-2083.  

2023    “Fichte and Hegel on Free Time,” European Journal of Philosophy 31, no. 4: 914-926.  

2022    “Hegel and the Problem of Affluence,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 8 no. 2: 224 - 237.

2021    “Death in Berlin. Hegel on Mortality and the Social Order,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 no. 5: 871-890.