Director:
Margaret Gilbert
Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, UCI
Website: UCI profile
Some publications relating to the cluster’s theme:
- Life in Groups: How We Think, Feel, and Act Together (2023), Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Joint Commitment: How We Make the Social World (2014/15) New York: Oxford University Press
- “A Real Unity of Them All” (2009, The Monist)
- A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society, 2006/2008, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- “Shared Values, Social Unity, and Liberty” (2005, Public Affairs Quarterly)
Associate Director:
Katherine Ritchie
Associate Professor of Philosophy, UCI
Website: UCI profile | http://kcritchie.com/
Some publications relating to the cluster’s theme:
- “Essentializing Language and the Prospects for Ameliorative Projects” (2021, Ethics)
- “Does Identity Politics Reinforce Oppression” (2021, Philosophers’ Imprint)
- “Social Structures & the Ontology of Social Groups” (2020, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)
Faculty Associates
Peter Ditto
Professor of Psychological Science, UCI
Website: UCI profile | UCI Hot Cognition Lab
Clark, C. J., Liu, B. S., Winegard, B. M., & Ditto, P. H. “Tribalism is human nature” (2019, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
Kristen Monroe
Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UCI
Website: UCI profile
Paul K. Piff
Associate Professor of Psychological Science, UCI
Website: UCI profile
Francesca Polletta
Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology, UCI
Website: UCI profile
Inventing the Ties that Bind: Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life (2020), University of Chicago Press
Keith Topper
Associate Professor of Political Science, UCI
Website: UCI profile
Postdoctoral Associates:
Matt Dean, Mellon Humanities Faculty Fellow, UCI
Website: https://www.mattjdean.com/
Graduate Student Associates:
Taylor Dunn, Philosophy PhD Candidate, UCI
Tiffany Zhu, Philosophy PhD Candidate, UCI
Former Graduate Student Associates:
M. Giulia Napolitano, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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