Portrait of Dr. David Albert DiDomenico

Dr. David Albert DiDomenico

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts

Biography

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. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas State University, Dr. DiDomenico taught philosophy at Miami Dade College, the University of Miami, and Georgia State University.

Research Interests

Dr. DiDomenico's research interests are in epistemology and philosophy of mind. He writes mostly about the nature and epistemology of perception, inference, and inquiry. Most recently he has been working on the epistemological implications of doxastic wronging, epistemological constraints on theories of inference, the structure of pre-doxastic stages of inquiry, and the differences between logic and critical thinking.

Research topics; inference; inquiry; the ethics of belief; reasons and rationality; the epistemology of perception; critical thinking

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

One of Dr. DiDomenico's scholarly ambitions is exploring novel ways of showing the relevance of academic philosophical work to the cares and concerns of ordinary people. 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 carefully crafted public-facing work, it can and it should. This is especially true of philosophical work on critical thinking, justice, equality, democracy, political economy, and virtue.