Rate My Professor Jon Cogburn

Cogburn has an extensive publication record, including books such as Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Philosophy Through Video Games co-authored with Mark Silcox (Routledge, 2009), Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy: Raiding the Temple of Wisdom co-edited with Mark Silcox (Open Court, 2012), The Graham Harman Reader co-edited with Niki Young (Zero Books, 2023), and Kayfabe Nation: Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism co-authored with Neil Hebert (Punctum Press, 2025). He has translated works by Tristan Garcia, including Form and Object: A Treatise on Things with Mark Ohm (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Letting Be, Volume I: The Life Intense (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and The Architecture of the Possible (Polity, 2022). Peer-reviewed articles by Cogburn appear in journals such as Open Philosophy ("Revisiting the Notion of Vicarious Cause: Allure, Metaphor, and Realism in Object-Oriented Ontology," 2024, with Niki Young), Erkenntnis ("Pritchard’s Epistemology and Necessary Truths," 2022, with J. Roland), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly ("Safety and the True-True Problem," 2013, with J. Roland), American Philosophical Quarterly ("The Emergence of Emergence: Computability and Ontology," 2011, with M. Silcox), and Synthese ("Manifest Invalidity: Neil Tennant’s New Argument for Intuitionism," 2003).

Cogburn teaches courses including PHIL 1000 Introduction to Philosophy, PHIL 2010 Symbolic Logic, PHIL 3410 Metaphysics, PHIL 3830 Philosophy of Mind, PHIL 4160/7160 Kant, PHIL 4190/7190 Object-Oriented Ontology, and PHIL 4351/7351 Philosophy Through Video Games. As department chair, he leads faculty and initiatives such as the AI & Religion Collaborative.