Ask a Philosopher

Room: Front Lobby, 1st Floor

Throughout the early hours of Night in the Library: Out of Darkness, several public philosophers will attend to audience members' questions by answering their philosophical concerns. With Ian Olasov, Travis Timmerman and Ignacio Choi

Ian Olasov is a public philosopher based in Brooklyn. His research is on changing people's stereotypes, moral discourse, the philosophy of journalism, and the theory and practice of public philosophy. He is the author of Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions (St. Martin's: 2020) and a co-editor of A Companion to Public Philosophy (Wiley: 2022). He is the founder of Brooklyn Public Philosophers and the president of the Public Philosophy Network. He currently teaches philosophy at NYU and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Travis Timmerman is associate professor, and chair, of the philosophy department at Seton Hall University. He works in ethics and the philosophy of death.