Professor Jon Cogburn, Louisiana State University
Jon Cogburn is chair of the Louisiana State University Department of Philosophy. He has authored or coauthored over thirty articles in philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of mind. Whenever possible, he focuses on the intersection of analytic and continental philosophy, especially with respect to speculative realism and object-oriented ontology. He is the author (with Mark Silcox) of Philosophy of Video Games and single author of Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object. He has co-translated (with Mark Ohm, Abigail RayAlexander, and Christopher RayAlexander) five books by Tristan Garcia, including Garcia’s mammoth Form and Object, and edited (with Mark Silcox) Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy. He has recently completed a book on professional wrestling and American politics with Neal Hebert and is currently working on a book on panpsychism with Niki Young, a book on HP Lovecraft with Mike Ardoline, and a translation of Garcia’s Laisser être et rendre puissant with the RayAlexanders. He is an amateur watercolorist and guitarist, playing with Emily Cogburn and Robert Holden in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana based band Southern Primitives.
