Basics

Name	Raimundo Rolando Cox
Email	rrc55@pitt.edu
Summary	PhD Student in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh

Interests

	Primary Area: Modern & Early Modern Philosophy
	Kant
	German Idealism
	Rationalism

	Secondary Area: Medieval Philosophy & Scholasticism
	Aquinas
	Scotus
	Cajetan
	Suárez

	Secondary Area: Practical Philosophy
	Philosophy of Action
	Ethics
	Metaethics
	Political Philosophy

Education

• 2023 - Present

  Pittsburgh, PA

  PhD

  University of Pittsburgh

  Philosophy

• 2022 - 2024

  Santiago, Chile

  MA

  Universidad de los Andes, Chile

  Philosophy and Classical Languages — Dissertation: "A shoreless sea. Introduction, Translation and Commentary of Immanuel Kant's Dissertatio (1770)"

• 2018 - 2021

  Santiago, Chile

  BA

  Unidversidad de los Andes, Chile

  Philosophy — Dissertation: "Ens sive causa. The Causal Understanding of Being in Francisco Suárez’s Disputationes Metaphysicae (1597)."

Publications

• 2020

  Alfonso Gómez-Lobo: Selected Papers on Greek Thought (Review)

  Síntesis, Revista de Filosofía III, no. 1 (January–July 2020)

  Book Review (Spanish)

Presentations

• 2025.04.12

  Re-evaluating Suárez's Impact in Modern Philosophy

  Rackham Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Michigan

• 2025.07.11

  Re-evaluating Suárez's Impact in Modern Philosophy

  Intellectual Traditions in Dialogue & Conflict, International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry & University of Pennsylvania

Teaching

• 2024 - Present

  Pittsburgh, PA

  Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy

  University of Pittsburgh

  • "History of Modern Philosophy"
  • "Introduction to Philosophical Problems"

• 2022 - 2023

  Santiago, Chile

  Main Instructor, Core Curriculum

  Universidad de los Andes

  • "Philosophy of Science" (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos)
  • "Philosophical Anthropology" (Aristotle's De Anima & Physics, selections)
  • "Philosophical Anthropology II" (Aquinas's Summa, selections)
  • "Medical Anthropology" (Misc. topics: Life, Personhood, Body, Death)

• 2018 - 2021

  Santiago, Chile

  Teaching Assistant, Institute of Philosophy

  Universidad de los Andes

  • "Modern Philosophy II" (Kant)
  • "Ancient Philosophy II" (Aristotle & Stoics)
  • "Ancient Philosophy I" (Presocratics & Plato)
  • "Political Philosophy II" (From Machiavelli to Foucault)
  • "Political Philosophy I" (From Plato and Marisilius)
  • "Philosophy of Nature" (Aristotle & Aquinas)