Dena Shottenkirk
Founder Dena Shottenkirk has been acting as a Resident Philosopher since talkPOPc’s formation in 2012.
Shottenkirk has received terminal degrees in both art and philosophy: an MFA in painting from Rutgers’ University Mason Gross School of the Arts, and a PhD in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center. She was also staff art critic for both Artforum and Art in America and was the Head of the MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, along with positions at various other institutions. Shottenkirk is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Brooklyn College.
Over the years she has brought all of the listed Resident Philosophers into talkPOPc, building a strong community for philosophical conversation.
She can be contacted at talkpopc@gmail.com and her published philosophy can be found at: https://www.denashottenkirk.org/bio
Craig K. Agule
Craig K. Agule is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy & Religion at Rutgers University–Camden. His research is in philosophy of law and moral psychology, and he is interested in the intersection of these areas and particularly in issues about moral and legal responsibility and the normative conditions of blame and of punishment.
He can be contacted at craig.agule@rutgers.edu. His published philosophy can be found at: https://philpapers.org/s/Craig%20K.%20Agule
Carolina Flores
Carolina Flores is an assistant professor of philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and earned their Ph.D. in philosophy at Rutgers, New Brunswick in 2022. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind, epistemology, and social philosophy and is interested in evidence-resistance and the dynamics of belief revision, especially in social and political contexts. Their work has been published (or is forthcoming) in Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese, among other places.
They use the pronouns she/they and can be contacted at caro.flores@ucsc.edu. Her published philosophy can be found at: https://philpapers.org/s/Carolina%20Flores
Sascha Benjamin Fink
Sascha Benjamin Fink is the Director of Research of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR} at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and an affiliated researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow as well as the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences at Magdeburg. Before, he was the Juniorprofessor for Neurophilosophy at the philosophy department at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the independent, cost-free, diamond open-access journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, which he founded with Wanja Wiese and Jennifer Windt in 2019.
His publications concern the philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of perception, and philosophy of science. Most of his work can be found open access at: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=uMti-qQAAAAJ&hl=de.
Nicholas Whittaker
Nicholas Whittaker is an assistant professor in Wesleyan University’s philosophy department. He received his PhD at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research is focused on a cluster of interrelated questions bubbling out of philosophy of race, aesthetics, phenomenology, and metaphilosophy.
He can be contacted at nicholaswhittaker19@gmail.com. His published philosophy can be found at: https://www.nwhittaker.com/new-page
Martin Nitsche
Dr. Nitsche is Chair of the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His research focuses on phenomenology, philosophy of art, aesthetics, political philosophy, theory of media and phenomenology of religion. He is the guest editor at Open Philosophy topical issue “Philosophy and Sonic Research- Thinking with Sounds and Rhythms”.
He can be contacted at nitsche.martin@gmail.com. His published philosophy can be found at: https://cas-cz.academia.edu/MartinNitsche
Vincent Alexis Peluce
Vincent Peluce is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. After completing his BA in philosophy at UC Berkeley, he got his MA in philosophy at Central European University, in Budapest and wrote his thesis on Plato's Sophist. His focus is on the history of philosophy, logic, and some specific issues in the philosophy of math. He has lectured on philosophy at Baruch College, Brooklyn College, and the New School for Social Research.
His published philosophy can be found at: https://www.vpeluce.com/research
Laura Gradowski
Laura Gradowski completed her Ph.D. at the City University of New York, Graduate Center in 2022. Her recent work focuses on the status and reception of fringe theories in science. Drawing on theoretical considerations as well as case studies in the history of science, she argues that the marginalization of fringe theories is generally unjustified and delays scientific advancements. She defends theoretical pluralism as a solution to problems that arise as a result of theory entrenchment, including observational neglect. Gradowski also has interests in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. She has done work on consciousness, and is beginning to explore the science of placebo effects.
She can be contacted at laura.gradowski@gmail.com. Her published philosophy can be found at: https://lauragradowski.com/GradowskiPapers.html
Ian Olasov
Ian Olasov is a recent graduate of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches philosophy at New York University. His research interests are broad, but all address questions about speech in the public interest. His book Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions was published in 2020 with St. Martin’s Press, and he co-edited, with Lee McIntyre and Nancy McHugh, A Companion to Public Philosophy (Wiley, 2022). He is the current president of the Public Philosophy Network, and is the founder and organizer of Brooklyn Public Philosophers, a public philosophy event series for a general audience.
He can be contacted at ianolasov@gmail.com. His published works can be found at: https://ianolasov.com/
Kate Pendoley
Kate Pendoley is an assistant professor in philosophy at Vassar College and earned her PhD in Philosophy with a concentration in Cognitive Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in September, 2020. Her work is on empirically informed philosophy of emotion, with a focus on how interactions with other mental states can reveal the role of emotions in the mind. Her research bears on questions in philosophy of mind about intentionality and consciousness, and also on questions about how emotion norms can reinforce oppressive social systems.
She can be contacted at katependoley@gmail.com. Her published philosophy can be found at: https://philpapers.org/s/Kathryn%20Pendoley
Johannes Brandl
Johannes Brandl studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Graz in Austria. His PhD thesis was on the semantics of proper names, and he worked for four years as a postdoc at the Archives and Research Centre for Austrian Philosophy, mostly doing work on the unpublished manuscripts of Franz Brentano. In 1991, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg and was tenured in 2001 and has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the University of California in Irvine in 1999, 2009 and 2019. In 2020 he was promoted to Associate Professor for Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg.
He can be contacted at johannes.brandl@sbg.ac.at. His published work can be found at: https://www.johannesbrandl.com/publications/
Martina Botti
Martina Botti is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Columbia University. She specializes in metaphysics and ancient philosophy and is currently serving as Editorial Coordinator at the Journal of Philosophy.
She can be contacted at mb4323@columbia.edu. Her published work can be found at: https://philpeople.org/profiles/martina-botti
Andrew Rubner
Andrew Rubner is a philosopher of mind and cognitive science. Next fall he will be a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU, having completed his dissertation at Rutgers under the supervision of Susanna Schellenberg. He also has research and teaching interests in philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language. He is a member of Manish Singh and Jacob Feldman's joint visual cognition lab at Rutgers, where he is completing a certificate in Cognitive Science with Manish Singh on the misperception of aspect ratio of two-dimensional surfaces.
He can be contacted at andrew.rubner@gmail.com. His published philosophy can be found at: https://philpapers.org/s/Andrew%20Rubner