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 at the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of mind; my focus is on the experience of non-spatiotemporally located aspects of reality. You can read/hear about some of these themes in The Times Literary Supplement and BBC Radio 4.

My writing for the general public has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and in Spanish in Letras Libres.

Papers

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
(Winner of Irene H. Chayes New Voices Award, American Society for Aesthetics)

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

Essays & reviews

‘Give me all the power’
On music and authoritarianism in Latin America
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

Una guía de Berlín
On Nabokov
Letras Libres, 2013

Saludos desde Ciudad Cruz
A tribute to Calvino
Letras Libres, 2013

Media

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

Teaching

Seminario de investigación: syllabus, carpeta
UNAM, 2025

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
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