Brian Epstein | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Lakatos Award |
| Education | |
| Education | Stanford University (PhD), University of Oxford (MSt), Princeton University (BA) |
| Thesis | Simple Words and Subtle Things: Social Kinds and the Making of Reference (2004) |
| John William Etchemendy | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | Tufts University |
Main interests | philosophy of science |
| Website | https://epstein.org/ |
Brian Epstein is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Tufts University. He is known for his works on social ontology and is a winner of the Lakatos Award.123 He specializes in social ontology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
Books
- Social Ontology, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Cambridge Companion to the Metaphysics of Law (co-edited with George Pavlakos and Corrado Roversi), Cambridge University Press, expected publication 2026.
- The Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology (co-edited with Sally Haslanger, Stephanie Collins, and Hans-Bernhard Schmid), Oxford University Press, expected publication 2025.
References
References
- "Lakatos Award Lectures". BSPS. 15 November 2017.
- "Lakatos Award Lectures". The London School of Economics and Political Science.
- "Alumnus Brian Epstein, now of Tufts University, was honored with the 2016 Lakatos Prize for his impressive recent book, The Ant Trap". Stanford University. 21 July 2017.