Faculty Profile for Dr. David Albert DiDomenico

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Dr. DiDomenico is from Akron, Ohio. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Miami in 2020. He was a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University in 2019. He earned His MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University in 2014, a BA in Philosophy from the University of Akron in 2011, and a BS in International Business from the University of Akron in 2011.

Teaching Interests

Dr. DiDomenico regularly teaches in-person and online sections of Phil 1305: Philosophy and Critical Thinking and Phil 1320: Ethics and Society. At previous institutions, he taught Social and Ethical Issues in Computing, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Critical Thinking, and Introduction to Philosophy.

Teaching topics: applied ethics; philosophy of mind; logic; the ethics of artificial intelligence; philosophy of race and gender

One of Dr. DiDomenico's scholarly ambitions is exploring novel ways of showing the relevance of academic philosophical work to the concerns of non-specialists. Dr. DiDomenico believes that although what happens in and around the academic journals often doesn't make its way out into the general public, through clever public-facing work, it can and it should! This is especially true of philosophical work on race, gender, culture, political economy, justice, equality, democracy, work, friendship, and virtue.

Research Interests

My research interests are in epistemology and philosophy of mind. I work in areas that concern the nature and epistemology of perception, reasoning, and inquiry. Most recently I have been working on the epistemic upshot of doxastic wronging, epistemological constraints on theories of inference, and the structure of pre-doxastic stages of inquiry.

Research topics; inference; inquiry; the ethics of belief; reasons and rationality; epistemology of perception; metaphysics of mind