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.
Anne Jeffrey
Anne Jeffrey is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University and Research Scholar at Baylor College of Medicine. She specializes in metaethics, normative ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. Recently, she has been writing about habits thought to contribute to repair in conflict - like love of enemy, patience, and forgiveness, and wondering when calls for these habits function to preserve hegemonic social and political structures, and whether any version of these virtues could be repurposed for more just coalition building.
Affiliated Graduate Fellows
Casey Grippo
Casey Grippo is a philosophy PhD candidate at Boston University. They work in social ontology, ethics, and political philosophy, drawing heavily from feminist philosophy and queer theory. Casey's dissertation focuses on the concept of solidarity and its value across social, political, and personal domains. They argue that a framework of solidarity is essential for overcoming injustices and mitigating social conflicts.
Ismail Kirun
Ismail Kirun is a 5th-year PhD candidate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works mainly in social and political philosophy, medieval and Islamic philosophy, and philosophy of AI. His dissertation is on epistemology of liberalism and the liberalization of nonliberal societies. He investigates how conflicts arising from belief system diversity ought to be managed.
Yidi Wu
Yidi Wu is a doctoral candidate from the Department of Religion at Boston University, working on philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and political theology. His research interests lie in the intersection of religion, philosophy and politics, especially how religious ideas (e.g., messianism) are weaponized and secularized to incite conflict and violence.