About

Javier Gomez-Lavin is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. His research lies at the intersection of cognitive science, moral psychology, and philosophy of mind. He blends methods from experimental social psychology and analytical philosophy of science to explore how cognition shapes and is shaped by our social, aesthetic, and moral worlds. Gomez-Lavin is set to serve as the incoming director of the Purdue Normativity and Cognitions (PuNCs) lab starting summer 2023. Prior to Purdue, he was a sessional assistant professor at York University in Toronto, working within the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Program. From 2018 to 2021, he held a Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, collaborating with Professor Lisa Miracchi Titus and her MIRA lab group. Gomez-Lavin earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 2018, where he wrote a dissertation disputing the usefulness of the psychological construct of 'working memory' under the supervision of Professor Jesse Prinz. During his time at CUNY, he served as a co-PI on a grant funded by the Templeton Foundation, which used experimental philosophy tools to develop new moral theories of personal identity. Since 2016, Gomez-Lavin has been a guest researcher at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, an interdisciplinary institute at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His interdisciplinary work combines experimental social psychology and analytical philosophy to detail the multifaceted ways cognition influences and is influenced by social, aesthetic, and moral contexts.

Awards & honors

• Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsyl…
• co-PI on a grant funded by the Templeton Foundation

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