Emerson Bodde
Lecturer in Philosophy
Contact
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Office: Hardin 023
Website: http://www.emersonbodde.wordpress.com
Email: ebodde@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; B.A. (Hons) Philosophy and History, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Emerson Bodde received his B.A. in Philosophy and History from Case Western Reserve University in 2016 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 2023, and has served as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Clemson University since 2023. His research interests revolve around the history of political philosophy, the development of socio-political concepts during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the philosophy of AI. His recent work is focused on how social class ought to be defined in philosophy in light of the recent trends in the social criticism of capitalism, theories of social identity and intersectionality, and a relative absence of clarity about the notion of class in theories of justice, social ontology, and ethics. He has published articles in venues including Philosophy and Public Affairs, Philosophy & Social Criticism, AI & Society, Asian Philosophy, Journal of Spinoza Studies, Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society, and an edited volume, New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities. He is currently working on papers dealing with the epistemic dimensions of democracy and authoritarianism, the potential role of AI in facilitating deliberative democracy, and the international intellectual exchanges of political-philosophical ideas in the Interwar Era which implicitly frame contemporary political thinking.
