Henry is currently completing a PhD in Philosophy at Yale University. He is writing a dissertation, titled “Unity in Diversity: The Metaphysics and Ethics of Leibnizian Harmony", on the concept of harmony in G. W. Leibniz’s system and, in particular, the role that harmony plays in bridging Leibniz’s metaphysics and ethics. More broadly, his research lies in early modern philosophy, where he is especially drawn to questions of selfhood and personal identity as sites where metaphysics, ethics, politics, and theology converge.
He also works in the philosophy of religion, particularly the nature of religious language and the problem of evil, as well as in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German philosophy. He is currently interested in the changing conception of the principle of sufficient reason in Martin Heidegger’s thought, an issue closely connected to Heidegger’s reception of Leibniz.
Before coming to Yale in 2022, Henry completed a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mansfield College, Oxford, and a BPhil in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for which he wrote the thesis “Leibniz on Happiness, Love, and Immortality”. He was supported for the BPhil by an Ertegun Graduate Scholarship, for which he remains enormously grateful. He has especially fond memories of the Ertegun community, the garden, and (most of all) the remarkable desk chairs.
