Evan Westra

Promoted to Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
ewestra@purdue.edu

Evan Westra received his master’s from the University of British Columbia and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, and bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of British Columbia, all in philosophy.

He works on the philosophy of social cognition, including topics such as theory of mind, character judgment, and the psychology of norms. He also has interests in ethics and public discourse, the philosophy of animal minds and behavior, and the nature of mental representation.

Westra’s research has been published in both philosophy and cognitive science journals, including Mind & Language, Cognition, Philosophy & Public Affairs, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Studies, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Biology & Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Before joining the Philosophy Department at Purdue, Westra held postdoctoral positions at York University and the University of Toronto, and before that he was an instructor at the University of Rochester.