Sebastian Rand works in German Idealism, specializing in the philosophy of nature and science from Kant to Hegel. His current work is on Hegel's treatment of physical law and its mathematical expression, and on Hegel's treatment of human mindedness in relation to human animality. He also works in contemporary French philosophy and has recently published a translation of Catherine Malabou's "Que faire de notre cerveau?" (as "What Should We Do with Our Brain? ", Fordham University Press, 2008). He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2006, having studied at the HU-Berlin and the EHESS and ENS in Paris.

Rand is the director of the Department's MA exchange program with the Universität Bielefeld and its Colloquium Series, an affiliate of Georgia State's Neuroscience Institute and Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, and Vice President of the Georgia Philosophical Society.