People

Remei Capdevila Werning

rcapdevilawerning@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Philosophy

Allston Burr Resident Dean of Harvard College, Winthrop House

Research interests: Aesthetics, philosophy of architecture, philosophical issues of preservation and geoheritage

Remei Capdevila Werning received her Ph.D. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a SMArchS in History, Theory, and Criticism of...

Gregory Carroll

gcarroll@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate

Research Interests: Category theory, logic, philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein

Clara Carus

claracarus@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar in Philosophy

Harvard Appointment Dates: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2026

Research Interests: I am specialized in Early Modern Philosophy with a particular focus on Émilie Du Châtelet, Leibniz, Wolff and Kant. I work on metaphysics, in particular on the principles of knowledge (PC and PSR) and the concepts of time and space.

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Bethany Cates

bcates@fas.harvard.edu

PhD candidate

Research Interests: Legal and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Meta-Ethics

I received my B.S. in Physics from MIT in 2019. I work primarily in political philosophy, and am especially interested in the philosophy of race, democratic theory, and their...

Cheryl Chen

ckchen@fas.harvard.edu

Senior Lecturer on Philosophy

Research Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion

Cheryl Chen received her Ph.D. in philosophy from UC Berkeley and taught at Bryn Mawr College before coming to Harvard in 2006. She works mainly in epistemology...

Yan Chen

yanchen@fas.harvard.edu

Fellow in Philosophy

Harvard Appointment Dates: September 15, 2025 - December 31, 2026

Gennaro Chierchia

chierch@fas.harvard.edu

Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics

Department of Linguistics

Gennaro Chierchia has spent his intellectual life studying how meaning takes shape in language. A common thread in his work is the idea/claim/speculation that a logic (a way of drawing inferences) spontaneously grows and latches on to the syntactic...

Luke Ciancarelli

lukeciancarelli@g.harvard.edu

PhD candidate

Research Interests: Ethics & Moral Psychology (especially Kantian); Philosophy of Mind; History of Modern Philosophy (Early Modern, Kantian, and Post-Kantian)

Britta Clark

brittaclark@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Climate and Environmental Ethics, Ethics of Technology, Philosophy of Economics

William Cochran

wcochran@fas.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS

Research Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, moral education, ethics of emerging technologies. William Cochran received his Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2020. He then joined the Program for Leadership and...

Christopher Cowie

christophercowie@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar in Philosophy

Harvard Appointment Dates: April 17, 2023 - July 17, 2023

Research interests: Moral Philosophy, Metaethics, Philosophy of Astrobiology. Bio: Chris is an Associate Professor at the University of Durham, in the UK. Reason for Harvard Visit: Chris is at Harvard to work on a book project about the metaethical...