Exploring the nature and role of emotions through a philosophical perspective.

We are a network of collaborators in philosophy across different universities that engage in collaborative learning, research, and public engagement around emotions and society. We are based at the University of California, Riverside.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
—Audre Lorde

Through various collaborative projects between faculty, students, and the public we examine the nature of emotions as well as their uses and abuses in social life; we theorize affective concepts and phenomena in order to solve real-world problems; and we see non-western philosophical traditions as important contributors to the above endeavors and therefore apt for engagement.

Meet Our Team

  • Myisha Cherry

    (Director)
    Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside

  • Alfred Archer

    (Collaborator)
    Asst. Professor of Philosophy at The Tilburg Centre for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), Tilburg University

  • Alice MacLachlan

    (Collaborator)

    Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University (Toronto, Canada)

  • Alba Curry

    (Collaborator)
    Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds

  • Ryan Preston-Roedder

    (Collaborator)
    Associate Professor of Philosophy at Occidental College

  • Olivia Bailey

    (Collaborator)
    Asst. Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley

  • Meena Krishnamurthy

    (Collaborator)
    Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University

  • Francisco Gallegos

    (Co-Organizer of Fellows Program)

    Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University

  • Laura Silva

    (Collaborator)

    Asst. Professor at the Department of Political Science, Université Laval, Canada

  • Caleb Ward

    (Collaborator)
    Post-doc in Philosophy at the University of Hamburg

  • Rachel Achs

    (Collaborator)

    Asst. Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz

  • Eric Schwitzgebel

    (Collaborator)
    Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside

  • Joel Krueger

    (Collaborator)

    Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Exeter

  • Jade S. Sasser

    (Collaborator)

    Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside

  • Nic Bommarito

    (Collaborator)
    Associate Professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University

  • Lisa Tessman

    (Collaborator)
    Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University

  • Owen Flanagan

    (Collaborator)
    James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Duke University

  • Jason D'Cruz

    (Collaborator)
    Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Albany

  • Flip Tanedo

    (Collaborator)

    Associate Professor of Physics at UC Riverside