Samuel Z. Elgin
I received my B.A. in Philosophy from Reed College in 2011 and my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 2018, where I worked with Michael Della Rocca. Between 2016 and 2018, I was an exchange scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Shamik Dasgupta.
Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania – where I teach classes on ethics, logic and metaphysics. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego – before which I was a Ph.D. student at Yale University.
My research lies at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. I have written papers that explore implications of truth-maker semantics and higher-order logic for puzzles in numerous areas – including real definition, epistemic closure, question-begging, the identity of indiscernibles, the principle of sufficient reason, reductive physicalism, and the necessity of mathematics.
My email address is ude.nnepu@niglemas. Please feel free to reach out to me at any point – I welcome correspondence about my work.
