Quinn Hiroshi Gibson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Coordinator, Medicine, Health, and Human Values Program
Contact
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Office: Hardin 204
Website: https://www.quinnhiroshigibson.com
Email: quinng@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley; B.A. (Hons) Philosophy, University of Calgary; B.A. Linguistics, University of Calgary
Dr. Quinn Hiroshi Gibson earned undergraduate degrees in philosophy and linguistics from the University of Calgary and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. His research is at the intersection of philosophy of mind, philosophy of science (psychology, psychiatry, and medicine), and ethics. He has published on self-deception, the brain disease model of depression, the neuropsychology of delusions, distributive justice and healthcare allocation, addiction and moral responsibility, and other topics. He is currently working on papers about rationality and mental disorder, the relation between affect and cognition, and philosophical theories of disease. He is a Faculty Scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR -- profile here).
Before coming to Clemson, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, and a volunteer instructor at Mt. Tamalpais College in San Quentin State Prison (previously the Prison University Project).
Dr. Gibson was recently interviewed by Clemson News here .
