Department of Philosophy

October 24, 2025

Kirun Sankaran is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Economy Project and Lecturer in Philosophy at Dartmouth College. he writes,

"My research primarily concerns issues in social and political philosophy surrounding challenges to the liberal commitment to economic growth. Not coincidentally, I have a strong historical interest in the Scottish Enlightenment. Sometimes I also think about idealization and modeling in the philosophy of science, and its links to methods in political philosophy."

December 5, 2025

Ned Markosian is a member of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an Associate Member of LanCog, a research group in the Centre of Philosophy at The University of Lisbon. He works mainly in metaphysics, but also has research interests in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of art, and various other areas of philosophy.

January 23, 2026

Aliosha Barranco Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. For the academic year 25-26 she is visiting MIT. She writes,

"I received my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the supervision of Ram Neta and Alex Worsnip. I work in traditional epistemology, as well as its intersection with philosophy of technology.  

I am a dedicated teacher. I care about my students’ growth not only as learners but also as human beings. And nothing makes me happier than when my students tell me that my class made them fall in love with philosophy."

March 27, 2026

Katie Creel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, cross appointed between the Department of Philosophy and Religion and Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
Her current research explores the moral, political, and epistemic implications of machine learning as it is used in non-state automated decision making and in science. She has other ongoing projects on early modern philosophy and general philosophy of science.