Matthew Meyer

Professor

Philosophy

Contact Info

matthew.meyer@scranton.edu

(570) 941-5814

[LSC] Loyola Science Center 568

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Education

B.A. Economics (summa cum laude), University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. (1996)

M.T.S Theological Studies, Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass (1999)

Doctorate in Philosophy (with distinction), University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria. (2004)

M.A. Classics Boston University in Boston, Mass (2011)

Ph.D. Philosophy Boston University in Boston, Mass (2011)

Bio

Matthew Meyer, Ph.D., is Professor in the Philosophy Department. He has broad interests in the history of philosophy and political philosophy, and he teaches courses on a wide variety of topics including the philosophy of love and contemporary debates around naturalism and theism. Most of his research focuses on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. To date, he has published three books on Nietzsche: Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients (De Gruyter, 2014); Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading (CUP, 2019); The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Routledge, 2025). He has also co-edited Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy (CUP, 2019) with Paul Loeb, and he is currently the co-editor, with Kaitlyn Creasy, of the Cambridge Element series on the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (see here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/philosophy-of-friedrich-nietzsche)

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