As you may have gathered from name of the website, I'm Ryan Simonelli. I'm finishing up my Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. I did my undergrad at New College of Florida, and I also spent some time doing philosophy at Oxford University, Leipzig University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
I work mainly in philosophy of language and philosophical logic, but my work on these topics inevitably crosses over into issues in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Much of my work is guided by an implicit or explicit engagement with certain key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, such as Frege, Wittgenstein, and (most centrally) Wilfrid Sellars, as well as some figures in the more distant philosophical past, such as Aristotle and Kant.
I also do non-academic philosophy and lots of other things like surfing, swimming, hurting myself skateboarding, blundering pieces in chess, and making art.
Here's a picture of me at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado, taken by my wonderful girlfriend, Haley.
I work mainly in philosophy of language and philosophical logic, but my work on these topics inevitably crosses over into issues in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Much of my work is guided by an implicit or explicit engagement with certain key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, such as Frege, Wittgenstein, and (most centrally) Wilfrid Sellars, as well as some figures in the more distant philosophical past, such as Aristotle and Kant.
I also do non-academic philosophy and lots of other things like surfing, swimming, hurting myself skateboarding, blundering pieces in chess, and making art.
Here's a picture of me at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado, taken by my wonderful girlfriend, Haley.