Jon Cogburn
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Professor of Philosophy Department Chair 116 Coates Hall 225-578-2273 |
Professor Cogburn's research publications include Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (2017), Philosophy through Video Games (2009, co-authored with M. Silcox), The Graham Harman Reader (2023, co-edited with N. Young), and Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy (2012, co-edited with M. Silcox).
B.A., in Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin (1993)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, The Ohio State University (1999)
PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 1021: Introduction to Logic
PHIL 2010: Symbolic Logic I
PHIL 2023: Philosophy of Art
PHIL 2024: Philosophy in Literature
PHIL 2035: History of Early Modern Philosophy
PHIL/REL 2028: Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 2745: Knowledge and Reality
PHIL 4786/7991: Graham Harman
PHIL 4914: Philosophy of Language
PHIL 4935: Kant
PHIL 4941: Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 4950: Advanced Epistemology
PHIL 4952: Object-Oriented Philosophy
PHIL 4952: The Self
PHIL 4953: Continental Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 7905: Schopenhauer
Books
(with Neil Hebert) Kayfabe Nation: Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism (Punctum Press, 2025)
(co-edited with Niki Young) The Graham Harman Reader (Zero Books, 2023)
Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
(co-edited with Mark Silcox) Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy Open Court, 2012)
(co-authored with Mark Silcox) Philosophy Through Video Games (Routledge, 2009)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
(with Niki Young) 鈥淩evisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology,鈥�
(with M.A. Ohm) 鈥淣atural narratives and unnatural readers,鈥�
(with J. Roland) 鈥淧ritchard鈥檚 Epistemology and Necessary Truths,鈥� Erkenntnis 89 (2022): 1-21
鈥淏e(ing) Here Now: Notes Towards and Indexicalist Epistemology,鈥� Cosmos and History 17.2 (2021): 45-65
"Ceci n'est pas une cuve.: Putnam鈥檚 Argument as Inclosure Paradox,鈥� in Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds, ed, Mark Silcox (MIT Press, 2017), 57-71
(with J. Heller) 鈥淢eillassoux鈥檚 Dilemma,鈥� in New Perspectives on Realism, ed. Luca Taddio and Kevin William Molin (Mimesis Press, 2017)
(with G. Bounds) 鈥淚dentit盲tsphilosophie鈥� and the Sensibility that Understands,鈥� Comparative and Continental Philosophy: Schelling and Naturphilosophie 8.3 (2016): 255-70
(with M. A. Ohm ) 鈥淕arcia鈥檚 Paradox,鈥� Speculations 6 (2015): 3-18
(with M. A. Ohm) 鈥淎ctual Qualities of Imaginative Things: Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Literary Theory,鈥� Speculations 5 (2014): 180-224
(with J. Roland) 鈥淪afety and the True-True Problem,鈥� Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94.2 (2013): 246-67
(with M. Silcox) 鈥淎gainst Brain in a Vatism: On the Value of Virtual Reality,鈥�
(with J. Roland) 鈥淪trong, Therefore Sensitive: Misgivings about DeRose鈥檚 Contextualism,鈥� Grazer Philosophische Studien 85 (2012): 237-53
"Beyond Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil?鈥� in Cogburn and Silcox, eds. Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy, ed. Cogburn and Silcox (2012), 29-48
(with Neal Hebert) 鈥淓xpressing the Inexpressible,鈥� in Cogburn and Silcox, eds. Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy, ed. Cogburn and Silcox (2012), 131-50
(with J. Roland) 鈥淎nti-Luck Epistemologies and Necessary Truths,鈥� Philosophia 39 (2011): 547-61
(with M. Silcox) 鈥淭he Emergence of Emergence: Computability and Ontology,,鈥� American Philosophical Quarterly 48.1 (2011): 63-74
鈥淢oore鈥檚 Paradox as an Argument Against Anti-Realism,鈥� in The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science), ed. Shahid Rahman, Giuseppe Primiero, and Mathieu Marion, (Springer, 2011), 69-84
(with J. Megill) 鈥淎re Turing Machines Platonists? Inferentialism and the Philosophy of Mind,鈥� Minds and Machines 20.3 (2010): 423-40
(with M. Silcox ) 鈥淎zeroth versus the Experience Machine,鈥� in World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King, ed. Luke Cuddy and John Nordlinger (Open Court, 2009), 84-100
(with M. Silcox) 鈥淐omputability Theory and Literary Competence,鈥� British Journal of Aesthetics 46.5 (2006): 369-86
鈥淚nferentialism and Tacit Knowledge,鈥� Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2005): 503-24
(with R. Cook) 鈥淚nverted Space: Minimal Verificationism, Propositional Attitudes, and Compositionality,鈥� Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 32 (2005): 73-92
(with J. Megill) 鈥淓asy鈥檚 Getting Harder all the Time: Human Emotions and the Frame Problem,鈥� Ratio 17.3 (2005): 306-16
(with M. Silcox) 鈥淐omputing Machinery and Emergence,鈥� Minds and Machines 15.1 (2005): 73-89
"The Logic of Logical Revision: Formalizing Dummett鈥檚 Argument,鈥� The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83.1 (2005): 15-32
鈥淭onking a Theory of Content: An Inferentialist Rejoinder,鈥� Logic and Logical Philosophy 13 (2005): 31-36
鈥淧aradox Lost,鈥� Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34.2 (2004): 195-216
鈥淭he Philosophical Basis of What? The Anti-Realist Case For Dialethism,鈥� in The Law of Non-Contradiction, ed. Graham Priest, J.C. Beall, and Bradley Armour-Garb, (Oxford University Press, 2004), 217-34
鈥淢anifest Invalidity: Neil Tennant鈥檚 New Argument for Intuitionism,鈥� Synthese 134.3 (2003): 353-62
鈥淒econstructing Dummett鈥檚 Anti-Realism: A New Argument Against Church鈥檚 Thesis,鈥� The Logica Yearbook (2002): 57-68
(with R. Cook) 鈥淲hat Negation is Not: Intuitionism and 鈥�0=1鈥�,鈥� Analysis 60.1 (2000): 5-12
鈥淟ogical Revision Re-revisited: The Wright/Salerno Argument for Intuitionism,鈥� Philosophical Studies 60.1 (2000): 5-12
Translations
(with Abigail RayAlexander and Christopher RayAlexander) Tristan Garcia, The Architecture of the Possible (Polity, 2022)
(with Abigail RayAlexander and Christopher RayAlexander) Tristan Garcia, Letting Be, Volume II: We Ourselves: The Politics of Us (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
(with Abigail RayAlexander and Christopher RayAlexander) Tristan Garcia, Letting Be, Volume I: The Life Intense (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
(with Mark Ohm) Tristan Garcia, Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
Book Reviews
Review of Herman Cappelin, Fixing Language, An Essay on Conceptual Engineering,
Review of Ken Akiba and Ali Abasnezhad, ed., Vague Objects and Vague Identity (Springer, 2014), Analysis 77.2 (2017): 468-73
Review of Arne de Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe, and Ashley Woddward, ed., Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology,
Review of Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry 45 (2011): 465-76
鈥淐ritical Notice of Robert Brandom鈥檚 Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism,鈥� Philosophical Books, 51.3 (2010): 160-74
(with R. Cook) Review of Piergiorgio Odifreddi, ed., Kreiseliana: About and Around Georg Kreisel, (A.K. Peters Ltd. Stanford [1997]), Studia Logica 63 (1999)