I’m a philosopher who uses cross-disciplinary methods to study the contours of human cognition and how it shapes, and is shaped by, our social, cultural, and moral worlds.
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor with the department of philosophy at Purdue University in Indiana. In Spring 2024 I’ll be visiting as a faculty fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, I am the Director of the College of Liberal Arts’ inaugural Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence (VRAI) Lab and the soon-to-be launched Purdue Normativity and Cognitions (PuNCs) experimental philosophy Lab. Just prior, for the 2021 to 2022 academic year, I was a Sessional Assistant Professor with the department of philosophy and cognitive science program at York University in Toronto, Canada.
From 2018 to 2021, I was a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the Department of Philosophy with Lisa Miracchi and the MIRA group. I earned my PhD in philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2018.
You can find out more about my published work, research topics, conferences I’ve presented at, my updated cv, my prior teaching, my dissertation, and how to contact me by navigating through the tabs above or by emailing me at jglavin [at] purdue [dot] edu I’m also on twitter. Thanks for visiting.
News: in 2024 we were awarded a grant from the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy at Duke University to conduct topic modeling and experimental philosophy research that examines how concepts change as they cross disciplinary divides. Also, our new paper, Collective action, morality and friendship was just published with the Journal of Social Ontology.
updated 03.2024
Javier Gomez-Lavin 