Visiting and Affiliated Fellows
Affiliated Faculty Fellows
Dong An
Dong An is an associated researcher (equivalent to assistant professor) of philosophy at Zhejiang University, China. She works in philosophy of emotion, moral psychology, and normative ethics. Her research has been focused on the role that various emotions play in shaping our ethical, epistemic, and political life. She is currently working on a project of understanding moral responsibility in terms of fitting emotions.
Olivia Bailey
Olivia Bailey is an assistant professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, specializing in moral psychology, moral epistemology, and the history of ethics. She is particularly interested in the significance of emotionally-charged imagination and understanding, and in the gap between intellectually comprehending and knowing something “in one’s heart." She is currently writing a book about empathy.
Barrett Emerick
Barrett Emerick is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He works in social philosophy, feminist philosophy, and moral psychology, focusing in particular on the ways that people’s inner lives are born from and contribute to unjust ideologies. One theme that runs through much of his work is the need to hold someone responsible for their wrongful actions without writing them off as a lost cause.
Affiliated Graduate Fellows
Eli Benjamin Israel
Eli Benjamin Israel is a philosophy PhD student at Temple University, working on moral philosophy, moral psychology, Kant, and feminist philosophy. Currently, Eli's research focuses on the normativity of trust and consent within personal relationships, emphasizing the moral and epistemic significance of assessing the normative commitments our counterparts undertake when deciding whether to trust or consent to them. Besides being an affiliated graduate fellow at the CFCP, Eli is a research affiliate at the Center for Positive Sexuality and serves as chair of the APA's Graduate Student Council.
Pol Pardini Gispert
Pol Pardini is a philosophy Ph.D. student at Boston University. His interests are in ethics, moral psychology, and epistemology. His dissertation research focuses on the epistemic and moral vices associated with phenomena at the root of especially virulent interpersonal conflicts, like extremism, fanaticism, and conspiracy thinking. His underlying aim in this work is to explain how purely epistemic failures (e.g., dogmatism) can lead to moral failings (e.g., intolerance) that promote engaging in violent behavior.
Parker Rose
Parker Rose is a student in the Marriage and Family Therapy department at Chapman University. Before pursuing a career in therapy, she was a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Parker is passionate about the connection between psychotherapeutic theory and philosophy and is interested in exploring how family systems theory can offer insights into the philosophical foundations of conflict.