Aidan McGlynn
Senior Lecturer
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 8.17
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Background
I joined the department in September 2012 as a Chancellor's Fellow, and I have been a senior lecturer since August 2018. Previously I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. I did my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was supervised by Mark Sainsbury, and my undergraduate and masters at the University of St Andrews.
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Deputy Undergraduate Teaching Director (Honours), Diaphora Project
Undergraduate teaching
I teach the 4th year courses 'Knowledge, Ignorance, and Power' (Fall semester) and 'Objectification, Dehumanisation, and Othering' (Spring semester), as well as the knowledge portion of the 2nd year course 'Knowledge and Reality'.
In previous years I have taught 'Philosophy of Fiction', and co-taught 'Feminism', 'History of Analytic Philosophy', 'Themes in Epistemology', 'Scepticism', 'An Introduction to Philosophical Methodology', and 'Mind, Matter, and Language'.
Office hours
2023-4:
Semester 1: Thursday 1-2 or by appointment
Semester 2: TBD
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am available to supervise Masters and PhD dissertations in any of my research and teaching areas.
Current PhD students supervised
- Frances Darling (Glasgow)
- Jordan Karausky
- William Kinzelmann
- Rory Wilson
- Yinmei Wu
Past PhD students supervised
- Giada Fratantonio
- Lukas Schwengerer
- Kegan Shaw
- Michel Croce
- Matt Jope
- Lilith Newton
- Angie O'Sullivan
Research summary
I work mostly on issues in epistemology, particularly where it intersects with other areas such as the philosophies of language and mind and social and feminist philosophy.