As you may have gathered from name of the website, I'm Ryan Simonelli (in non-professional contexts, I often go by "Sims," and in Chinese-speaking contexts I sometimes go by "思远 (sī yuǎn)"). I'm currently an International Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wuhan University. I completed my PhD in philosophy at University of Chicago in 2022 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, metaphysics, and philosophical logic, but my work on these topics inevitably crosses over into issues in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and basically every other field of philosophy. Much of my work is guided by an implicit or explicit engagement with certain key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, such as Wittgenstein and Sellars, as well as some figures in the more distant philosophical past, such as Aristotle and Kant, and (a continent over) Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti.
I also do non-academic philosophy and lots of other things like surfing, swimming, hurting myself skateboarding, inventing terrible chess gambits, mixing music, and making art.
Here's a picture of me at Zhangjiajie.
I work mainly in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic, but my work on these topics inevitably crosses over into issues in philosophy of mind, epistemology, and basically every other field of philosophy. Much of my work is guided by an implicit or explicit engagement with certain key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, such as Wittgenstein and Sellars, as well as some figures in the more distant philosophical past, such as Aristotle and Kant, and (a continent over) Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti.
I also do non-academic philosophy and lots of other things like surfing, swimming, hurting myself skateboarding, inventing terrible chess gambits, mixing music, and making art.
Here's a picture of me at Zhangjiajie.