Director

Cailin O'Connor
  • Chancellor's Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2013

  • philosophy of biology, evolutionary game theory, philosophy of science

  •  793 Social Science Tower

  • cailino@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

Associated Faculty

Jeffrey A. Barrett
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., Columbia, 1992

  • philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; epistemology; game theory, decision theory, and rational choice

  •  765 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6491

  • j.barrett@uci.edu
  • Website
Anna Boncompagni
  • Associate Professor, Philosophy | UC Irvine School of Humanities

  • Social Epistemology, Feminist Epistemology, Wittgenstein, American Pragmatism

  • anna.boncompagni@uci.edu
  • Website
Graeme Boushey
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle 

  • california politics and statewide elections, american politics, state and federal policy-making, ballot measures and the initiative process

  •  5203 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-1950

  • gboushey@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Nadia Chernyak
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014

  • cognitive development, social cognition, prosocial behavior, moral cognition, agency and free will, conceptual development

  •  2334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-9788

  • nadia.chernyak@uci.edu
  • Lab
Annalisa Coliva
  • Chancellor Professor, Philosophy | UC Irvine School of Humanities

  • Epistemology, Philosophy of mind and language, History of Analytic Philosophy

  • a.coliva@uci.edu
  • Website
Kenny Easwaran
  • Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Colloquium & Events Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

  • formal epistemology (esp. philosophy of probability and decision theory), epistemology, mathematical logic (esp. set theory), philosophy of mathematics

  •  759 Social Science Tower

  • k.easwaran@uci.edu
  • Website
Mark Fiocco
  • Professor, Philosophy | UC Irvine School of Humanities

  • Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Meta-Ethics

  • mfiocco@uci.edu
  • Website
Sara Wallace Goodman
  • Department Chair and Professor
    Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2009

  • citizenship, immigrant integration, identity
Aaron James
  • Professor, Philosophy
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • ethics (foundations and moral theory), political philosophy

  •  HIB 96 | 949-824-6520

  • aaron.james@uci.edu
Jeffrey Kopstein
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1991 

  • comparative politics, dictatorship and democracy, ethnic politics, political violence, post-communism

  •  5265 Social Science Plaza B

  • kopstein@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Allison Koslow
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy
    Ph.D., MIT 

  • philosophy of language, metaphysics, feminism, history of analytic, philosophy of linguistics

  • akoslow@uci.edu
  • Website
Michael McBride
  • Acting Associate Dean of Graduate Studies; Professor, Economics
    Ph.D., Yale University 

  • game theory, experimental economics, political economy, social networks, religion

  •  3129 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-7417

  • mcbride@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Kristen Monroe
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1974

  • ethics, international relations, political and moral psychology, normative political theory, politics of difference, conflict resolution

  •  4103 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-6092

  • krmonroe@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
Megan Peters
  • Associate Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014

  • perception, metacognition, subjective experience, computational modeling, computational cognitive neuroscience

  •  2568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • megan.peters@uci.edu
  • Lab
Duncan Pritchard
  • Distinguished Professor, Philosophy

  • epistemology, skepticism, wittgenstein, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education, philosophy of law
Katherine Claire Ritchie
  • Assistant Professor, Philosophy, UCI School of Humanities
    Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 2013

  • metaphysics, philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, social philosophy

  • ritchiek@uci.edu
  • Website
Lauren Ross
  • Dean's Professor, Chancellor's Fellow, and Director of the Summer Diversity Program
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2016
    M.D., University of California, Irvine, 2011

  • general philosophy of science; philosophy of biology, neuroscience, and medicine

  •  791 Social Science Tower

  • rossl@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Barbara Sarnecka
  • Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies & Professor, Cognitive Sciences
    Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004

  • cognitive development, language and conceptual change, writing and scientific communication

  •  2562 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

  • sarnecka@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Gregory Scontras
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Language Science; Associate Director of C-ALPHA
    Ph.D. Linguistics, Harvard University, 2014

  • semantics, pragmatics, cognitive modeling, philosophical logic

  •  2221 Social Science Plaza B

  • g.scontras@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
  • CV
P. Kyle Stanford
  • Professor and Director of the PPE MA Program
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics, history of modern philosophy

  •  769 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6398

  • stanford@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Danielle Thomsen
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University 

  • american politics, u.s. congress, elections, gender and politics

  • dthomsen@uci.edu
  • Website
Joachim Vandekerckhove
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Leuven, Belgium, 2009

  • response time modeling, model fitting, computational statistics, psychometrics, bayesian statistics

  •  2324 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-5958

  • joachim@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
James Owen Weatherall
  • Chancellor's Professor and Department Chair
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2012
    Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009

  • philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, mathematical physics

  •  781 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6656

  • weatherj@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Daniel Whiteson
  • Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

  • experimental particle physics

  •  3168 Frederick Reines Hall | 949-824-2108

  • daniel@math.uci.edu
  • Website