Christopher Ranalli
Interests
I focus in most questions centered around the relationship between the human agent and the world around them. Most of the questions that I find interesting in that broad area concern the role of perceptual experience in our knowledge of and justified belief about the world around us. To that end, I am writing a thesis on the problem of perceptual knowledge of the external world. Otherwise, I ask questions about what is involved in perceiving the world, the nature of perceptual experience, the role of perceptual experience in thought, and how people can think, in general, about the things around them. A lot of what I find interesting are how past thinkers from Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, to Wittgenstein, Russell, and Austin, have tried to answer, or in some cases dissipate, philosophical questions of those kinds.
Education
University of Edinburgh,
PhD, Philosophy, 2010 - present.
Visiting Student, Honours Philosophy, 2008-2009.
University of California, Berkeley,
Visiting Scholar, 2011.
Virginia Commonwealth University,
Bachelor of Arts, Honors, Philosophy, 2006 - 2009.
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