Jon CogburnDepartment Chair Professor of Philosophy 116 Coates Hall 225–578–2273 |
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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). He has served as Department Chair since 2023. He previously served as Section Head of Philosophy, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies. |
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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) “Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology,” Open Philosophy 7.1 (2024): 290–304 (with M.A. Ohm) “Natural narratives and unnatural readers,” Das Questõs 18.1 (2023) (with J. Roland) “Pritchard’s Epistemology and Necessary Truths,” Erkenntnis 89 (2022): 1–21 “Be(ing) Here Now: Notes Towards and Indexicalist Epistemology,” Cosmos and History 17.2 (2021): 45–65 "Ceci n'est pas une cuve.: Putnam’s Argument as Inclosure Paradox,” in Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds, ed, Mark Silcox (MIT Press, 2017), 57–71 (with J. Heller) “Meillassoux’s Dilemma,” in New Perspectives on Realism, ed. Luca Taddio and Kevin William Molin (Mimesis Press, 2017) (with G. Bounds) “Identitätsphilosophie and the Sensibility that Understands,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy: Schelling and Naturphilosophie 8.3 (2016): 255–70 (with M. A. Ohm ) “Garcia’s Paradox,” Speculations 6 (2015): 3–18 (with M. A. Ohm) “Actual Qualities of Imaginative Things: Notes Towards an Object-Oriented Literary Theory,” Speculations 5 (2014): 180–224 (with J. Roland) “Safety and the True-True Problem,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94.2 (2013): 246–67 (with M. Silcox) “Against Brain in a Vatism: On the Value of Virtual Reality,” Philosophy and Technology (2013) (with J. Roland) “Strong, Therefore Sensitive: Misgivings about DeRose’s Contextualism,” Grazer Philosophische Studien 85 (2012): 237–53 "Beyond Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil?” in Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy, ed. Cogburn and Silcox (2012), 29–48 (with Neal Hebert) “Expressing the Inexpressible,” in Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy, ed. Cogburn and Silcox (2012), 131–50 (with J. Roland) “Anti-Luck Epistemologies and Necessary Truths,” Philosophia 39 (2011): 547–61 (with M. Silcox) “The Emergence of Emergence: Computability and Ontology,” American Philosophical Quarterly 48.1 (2011): 63–74 “Moore’s Paradox as an Argument Against Anti-Realism,” 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) “Are Turing Machines Platonists? Inferentialism and the Philosophy of Mind,” Minds and Machines 20.3 (2010): 423–40 (with M. Silcox ) “Azeroth versus the Experience Machine,” 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) “Computability Theory and Literary Competence,” British Journal of Aesthetics 46.5 (2006): 369–86 “Inferentialism and Tacit Knowledge,” Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2005): 503–24 (with R. Cook) “Inverted Space: Minimal Verificationism, Propositional Attitudes, and Compositionality,” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 32 (2005): 73–92 (with J. Megill) “Easy’s Getting Harder all the Time: Human Emotions and the Frame Problem,” Ratio 17.3 (2005): 306–16 (with M. Silcox) “Computing Machinery and Emergence,” Minds and Machines 15.1 (2005): 73–89 "The Logic of Logical Revision: Formalizing Dummett’s Argument,” The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83.1 (2005): 15–32 “Tonking a Theory of Content: An Inferentialist Rejoinder,” Logic and Logical Philosophy 13 (2005): 31–36 “Paradox Lost,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34.2 (2004): 195–216 “The Philosophical Basis of What? The Anti-Realist Case For Dialethism,” in The Law of Non-Contradiction, ed. Graham Priest, J.C. Beall, and Bradley Armour-Garb, (Oxford University Press, 2004), 217–34 “Manifest Invalidity: Neil Tennant’s New Argument for Intuitionism,” Synthese 134.3 (2003): 353–62 “Deconstructing Dummett’s Anti-Realism: A New Argument Against Church’s Thesis,” The Logica Yearbook (2002): 57–68 (with R. Cook) “What Negation is Not: Intuitionism and ‘0=1’,” Analysis 60.1 (2000): 5–12 “Logical Revision Re-revisited: The Wright/Salerno Argument for Intuitionism,” Philosophical Studies 60.1 (2000): 5–12
Book Reviews and Essays Review of Herman Cappelin, Fixing Language, An Essay on Conceptual Engineering, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2019) 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, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2013) Review of Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry 45 (2011): 465–76 “Critical Notice of Robert Brandom’s Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism,” 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)
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) Jon Cogburn’s Substack. Essays on philosophy, technology, culture, and disenchantment J. Cogburn and N. Hebert, “UFC Freedom 250 and the Limits of MAGA Spectacle,” New Lines Magazine, June 16, 2026 The Dissenter Podcast Interview (Ricardo Lopes interviewing Neal Hebert and Jon Cogburn): June 1, 2026, “Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism Invasive Thoughts Podcast Interview (Khafiz Kerimov and Nicholas Bellinson interview
Jon Cogburn): January 27, 2026, “Bridging the Continental-Analytic Divide; Paradoxico-Metaphysics;
and Panpsychism, or, are all things Mind?” Eternal Conversations Podcast Interview (Damon McGregor interviewing J. Cogburn): August 26, 2017 Edinburgh University Press Interview (Graham Haman interviewing J. Cogburn and M. Ohm) about translating Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object: circa 2015 Grinding to Valhalla Interview (Randolph Carter interviewing J. Cogburn and M. Silcox) about our Philosophy Through Video Games: March 3, 2010
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