The Philosophers' Cocoon

New contributor: Ian James Kidd

I am delighted to report that Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham) is joining the Cocoon as a regular contributor. Ian works on a variety of interesting topics in epistemology, philosophy of illness, Asian philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of science, and exemplarism. He also teaches a wide variety of interesting courses--including (just this year) Classical Chinese Philosophy, Zen Buddhism, Afro-Caribbean philosophy, and Existentialism--and has been active doing a variety of work related to increasing intellectual and demographic diversity in the discipline. Welcome!

New Contributor: Stephen Bloch-Schulman

I am happy to introduce the Cocoon's newest contributor, Stephen Bloch-Schulman. Stephen is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elon University, and works at the "intersection of Continental political theory and the scholarship of teaching and learning." He has also published a variety of articles in Teaching Philosophy and the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Welcome!

New contributor: Roman Altshuler

I am happy to welcome our newest contributor, Roman Altshuler, to the Cocoon. Roman received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in 2010 and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Kutztown University. He is interested in ethics, philosophy of action (especially free will), death, and the way a reconsideration of existentialist thinkers might contribute to these fields. He has published on character and agency, narrative identity and free will, death and immortality, and moral status in environmental ethics, in addition to editing a book on philosophy of action (with a few articles on the topic in the pipeline). Welcome!