Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo*

I am a philosopher working in epistemology and philosophy of mind. My current research explores the epistemic powers and limits of sense experience. I also write about literature, philosophy, and other topics for The New York Review of Books.

Research

Papers

Absence and objectivity. Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
On the veridicality of absence experience.

When is a concept a priori? Noûs, 2024
On experience and moral and mathematical concepts.

Virtual terrors. Noûs, 2023
On whether we can experience the sufferings of others through technology.
* Winner of inaugural Irene H. Chayes New Voices Award.

What do we see when we see total darkness? European Journal of Philosophy, 2017
On what the object of perception is in seeing total darkness.

Commentary

Showing, telling, understanding. Math Intelligencer, 2022
On the significance of the imagination in popular philosophy and mathematics.

Essays & criticism

‘Give me all the power’. New York Review of Books, 2023
On music and authoritarianism in Latin America.

Lonely at the top. New York Review of Books, 2023
On the anxiety of nonbelonging in Latin American films.

Deadly myths. New York Review of Books, 2022
On the mystification of femicide in literature.

Carving up the amorphous lump. Times Literary Supplement, 2019
On Borges’ ‘Funes the memorious’.

An exhibition of shadows. Times Literary Supplement, 2019
On the mathematics of symmetry and space.

Media

An empathy machine (talk & interview). BBC Radio 4

Teaching

Epistemology
Rutgers, Fall 2023

Minds, machines, and persons
Rutgers, Spring 2023

Cinema and the mind
Oxford, Trinity 2021

Work in progress

Technologies of the Imagination
In preparation for Oxford University Press

Papers on: knowledge of mathematics, self-reference in virtual experience, agency and self-alienation, experience and knowledge of one’s actions.

CV
PhilPapers
eo351[at]rutgers.edu