Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo*

I am a philosopher based at IIFs-UNAM. Previously, I held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Rutgers and NYU. I received my Ph.D. from Oxford. I work mainly in epistemology and philosophy of mind; my research examines a variety of epistemic powers and limits of experience.

My writing for a general audience — about philosophy, literature, and other topics — appears mostly in The New York Review of Books.

Research

Journal articles

Absence and objectivity
On the veridicality of absence experience
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2025

When is a concept a priori?
On the acquisition of moral and mathematical concepts
Noûs, 2024

Virtual terrors
On whether we can experience the suffering of others
Noûs, 2023

What do we see when we see total darkness?
On universals as objects of perception
European Journal of Philosophy, 2017

Commentary

Showing, telling, understanding
On the role of imagination and argument in philosophy and mathematics
Math Intell, 2021

Public writing

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

Lonely at the top
On non-belonging in González Iñárritu and Martel
The New York Review of Books, 2023

Deadly myths
On violence and magic in Latin American literature
The New York Review of Books, 2022

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

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

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.

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