Jacob Burda is co-founder of the Alpine Fellowship. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Oxford, writing his doctoral thesis on the conception of infinity in early German Romanticism. His thesis was translated into German and published with Metzler. He has lectured on German literature and philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is particularly interested in cultural history, phenomenology (especially Heidegger), and the philosophy of physics.

This video was filmed live at the Alpine Fellowship 2022 Symposium in partnership with Bard College through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.