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

• 2026.04.10

  Suárez and the Unity of Causality (Upcoming)

  The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, University of Gröningen

• 2025.10.3

  Comments on Godehard Brüntrup's (Munich) 'Adams: Determinist, Theist, Idealist'

  2025 Eastern Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers: The Philosophical Legacy of Robert Merrihew Adams, Princeton University

• 2025.07.11

  Re-evaluating Suárez's Impact in Modern Philosophy

  International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry 2025: Intellectual Traditions in Dialogue & Conflict, University of Pennsylvania

• 2025.04.12

  Re-evaluating Suárez's Impact in Modern Philosophy

  Rackham Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Michigan

Teaching

• 2026 - Present

  Pittsburgh, PA

  (Solo) Course Instructor, Department of Philosophy

  University of Pittsburgh

  • PHIL 0470 "Philosophy of Religion" (See Teaching page for course description)

• 2024 - Present

  Pittsburgh, PA

  Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy

  University of Pittsburgh

  • PHIL 0200 "History of Ancient Philosophy" (Writing Practicum)
  • PHIL 0210 "History of Modern Philosophy"
  • PHIL 0080 "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)