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 Associate Professor with the department of philosophy at Purdue University in Indiana. In Spring 2024 I visited 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’ recently launched Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence (VRAI) Lab and the associated 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. You can also follow some of my adventures in film photography here. Thanks for visiting.
updated 10. 2025
Javier Gomez-Lavin 